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From your New York Times best-selling writer of The Midsection Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother nicely summarized the family vibrant as "Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue." This designed nothing at all to Kelly, who still left childhood sure that her mother - with her inviolable commandments and pleased stoicism - would be nothing more than qualifications chatter for the others of Kelly's life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a back pack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler's bank checks, she became popular for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting. But it didn't turn out just how she pictured it. In just a matter of months, her savings shot, she got a choice: get employment or go back home. That's how Kelly found John Tanner, a newly widowed dad of two buying a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, talked about timing and pay, and seven days later, Kelly shifted in. And there, for the reason that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the home where she grew up, her mother's speech was suddenly just about everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her via a terrain as international as any she got ever trekked. Every day she put in with the Tanner kids was a day put in reconsidering her romantic relationship with her mother, turning it over in her hands such as a shell, straining to hear whatever messages might be trapped in its spiral. That is a publication about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and upgrading, fathers and mothers. But usually it's about who you admire and why, and how that changes as time passes.
