I'd avoided reading this book for a while because I felt like the cover made it look like a quick-read romance novel, which I just don't feel like I'm in the mood for this month. But for some reason I still checked it out from the library and had it hanging around the house--and once it became overdue I decided to just power through it and read it. It WAS a quick read, so I finished it quickly (and now still have yet to return it to the library--oops), but it was not a romance novel (which, theoretically, I knew, but the pink cover was still misleading!).
Glitter and Glue is really a memoir about Corrigan's relationship with her mother, and her beginning to understand who her mother is, once she's moved away and left her family behind for a yearlong trip around the world. She begins working as a nanny for a few months for a family in Australia, and as she begins to act as a mother for some recently motherless children, she begins to hear her own mother's voice in her head and to feel closer to her mother than she ever has. This experience of nannying was a turning point in her relationship with her mother--and the later experiences of being married and having kids of her own.
I really liked how Corrigan wrote about her experiences living in Australia with the Tanner family, and how she described her experience of basically becoming more of an adult. She gets that realization that all young adults have to go through of figuring out that their parents aren't crazy or ridiculous but just humans trying to do what they think is best--and it's pretty natural that that realization comes when she's first forced to think about other people first (these kids she's nannying). I really liked how she showed how much her mom's words came to her mind, and how she began to relate her mom's life history to that of the mom and family she was living with. All in all, this was a great book about the parent-child relationship and how that relationship changes with the seasons and years.
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