Download What to Keep: A Novel AudioBook Free
Denny Roman at 12: a Midwestern young lady with a clueless family, a lttle bit part in the institution play, a crush on the crisis educator, and concerns about frontal development. Her mother and father, divorced neuroscientists, are increasing her with benign neglect. The family is virtually run by an agoraphobe named Maureen, that has a taxi cab fleet and a superorganized and compassionate method of managing other's lives, especially Denny's. Denny Roman at 26: jets home from Hollywood for the weekend and lands in the marital minefield of her mom and stepfather's imminent relocation to New York. She's to pack up her childhood property in 48 hours before time for L.A. for a major audition with Robert Altman. She's said to be deciding what things to keep, but she's concerned about what things to wear. In a very deranged moment in time, she kisses her stepfather. For the lips. Denny Roman at 36: A playwrite on the eve of her first Off-Broadway development as soon as again living within sparring distance of her mom, she comes home from rehearsal one afternoon and detects a 13-year-old young man on her behalf doorstep: Luke, the boy of Maureen and a Mauritanian refugee cabdriver. Bewildered by his mother's recent fatality, Luke is buying place where he might fit. Will Denny keep him in New York? Will she get any help from Sean - an acting professional whose visual appearance may be all there is certainly to him? Will she be reconciled with her mom at long last? What to Keep checks the lives of Denny Roman, her mom, her daddy, her stepfather, and her surrogate mom - all rehearsing modifications on the theme "parent or guardian" but none of them quite done being children themselves. Bubbling with sly laughter and psychological understanding, their story keeps out a refreshingly versatile and realistic style of just what a good family - whether created naturally or chance or both - can contain.
