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A review by obsidian_blue
Glitter and Glue: A Memoir by Kelly Corrigan
5.0
I have never read a book by Kelly Corrigan before so this memoir was my first taste of her writing style. I have to say that her writing style really worked for me and each chapter went by so fast. Ms. Corrigan is a natural born storyteller and the way she describes people and even events I felt as if I was right there watching everything happen.
What made me really love this memoir though was that it caused me to sit down and really think about the relationship I had with my mother. I think mother/daughter relationships are often for the most case very jumbled.
Ms. Corrigan did a really good job with setting up the main premise of this memoir. Starting in the present time Kelly is dealing with some bad news she gets to her mother coming to stay with her for a visit. This causes Kelly to think and realize that when something serious and awful has happened she always wants her mother. She loves her dad and is what would be considered a "daddy's girl" but she realizes that her mother does love her and just is not as demonstrative as she would like.
We then have Kelly shifting the memoir to when she was newly graduated from college and decided that she and her best friend, Tracey would do a tour around the world for a year. While touring, and becoming broke through their travels the two young women remain in Australia and decide to become nannies to support themselves. While in Australia we have Kelly thinking more and more about her relationship with her mother while she deals with being a nanny to two motherless children.
I really think that the memoir as a whole worked and I loved that each chapter was told as Kelly in the "present" dealing with the children in Australia and having her mom as the voice in her head the entire time. The chapters would also usually go back to a story dealing with Kelly and her mom or her trying to understand what made her mom ticked.
I really did love this memoir and will try to check out this author's other books.
Please note that I received this novel for free via the Amazon Vine Program. This novel was released on February 4, 2014.
What made me really love this memoir though was that it caused me to sit down and really think about the relationship I had with my mother. I think mother/daughter relationships are often for the most case very jumbled.
Ms. Corrigan did a really good job with setting up the main premise of this memoir. Starting in the present time Kelly is dealing with some bad news she gets to her mother coming to stay with her for a visit. This causes Kelly to think and realize that when something serious and awful has happened she always wants her mother. She loves her dad and is what would be considered a "daddy's girl" but she realizes that her mother does love her and just is not as demonstrative as she would like.
We then have Kelly shifting the memoir to when she was newly graduated from college and decided that she and her best friend, Tracey would do a tour around the world for a year. While touring, and becoming broke through their travels the two young women remain in Australia and decide to become nannies to support themselves. While in Australia we have Kelly thinking more and more about her relationship with her mother while she deals with being a nanny to two motherless children.
I really think that the memoir as a whole worked and I loved that each chapter was told as Kelly in the "present" dealing with the children in Australia and having her mom as the voice in her head the entire time. The chapters would also usually go back to a story dealing with Kelly and her mom or her trying to understand what made her mom ticked.
I really did love this memoir and will try to check out this author's other books.
Please note that I received this novel for free via the Amazon Vine Program. This novel was released on February 4, 2014.