
Surviving in Spirit
A Memoir about Sisterhood and Addiction
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Dina Pearlman
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Mélanie Berliet
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What prompts a young woman to abandon the safe bounds of convention for the unknown?
At first, all Mélanie Berliet understood was that she'd lost her sense of what "supposed to" meant. And that her older sister, Céline, was sick.
While it's tough to understand what leads a person into addiction - to witness someone you love kind-of kill herself - the truth is that you can learn from it. By the time Céline died at age 30, she was Kermit The Frog green and she vomited blood more frequently than she was able to eat. In less than a decade, she had gone from summa cum laude Columbia graduate to NYU PhD student to unemployed, rambling, stumbling drunk saddled with a cirrhotic liver beyond repair. By the time Céline died, her younger sister, Mélanie, was no longer a Miss Goody Two Shoes from a waspy Connecticut suburb trotting down the sensible path. She was an adult who had abandoned a secure job on Wall Street to establish a career as a writer committed to exploring fascinating subcultures.
As Céline's illness escalated, you see, a basic lesson crept up on Mlanie: Life is beautifully short, and fragile as hell. Life happens. Gradually, Mélanie stopped agonizing over what she was supposed to do/think/know/read/listen to/watch/feel, or who she was supposed to be/befriend/love/like/learn from. So she pitched projects that sounded crazy and/or dangerous to most, but which gave her a thrill and helped her establish a career as an immersive journalist. She grew some balls, so to speak, after freeing herself from caring about what others might think.
The devastating beauty of what happened to Céline forced Mélanie to question who she is. However unwittingly, in dying, Céline empowered her younger sister to take risks - to live. This is their story.
©2014 Mélanie Berliet (P)2014 Audible Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide", Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital.
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Complaining about her dead mom.
- De Erik Hermansen en 11-23-14
De: Meghan Daum
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The Wrong End of the Table
- A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In
- De: Ayser Salman, Reza Aslan - foreword
- Narrado por: Ayser Salman, Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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Part memoir and part how-not-to guide, The Wrong End of the Table is everything you wanted to know about Arabs but were afraid to ask, with chapters such as “Tattoos and Other National Security Risks,” “You Can’t Blame Everything on Your Period; Sometimes You’re Going to Be a Crazy Bitch: and Other Advice from Mom,” and even an open letter to Trump. This is the story of every American outsider on a path to find themselves in a country of beautiful diversity.
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Not what I was looking for
- De Amazon Customer en 09-01-22
De: Ayser Salman, y otros
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30 Before 30
- How I Made a Mess of 20s, and You Can Too
- De: Marina Shifrin
- Narrado por: Marina Shifrin
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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Something was nagging Marina Shifrin. As a freshly minted adult with student loan payments and a “real” job she hated that paid her enough to get by if she also worked two other jobs, something needed to change. Marina and her friend each made lists of 30 things they’d do before the age of 30. The first thing on Marina’s list was, “Quit My Shitty Job”. So she did, and just like that the List powered her through her twenties. Told with humor and heart, 30 Before 30 will entertain, motivate, and challenge listeners to get out of their comfort zones and live their best lives.
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Inspiring read
- De Chris Gledhill en 12-18-18
De: Marina Shifrin
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Property
- Stories Between Two Novellas
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Lionel Shriver
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Painful and drawn out
- De JR en 06-27-18
De: Lionel Shriver
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My Life with Bob
- Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
- De: Pamela Paul
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens, Pamela Paul
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for 28 years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read.
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An uncanny mirror and a celebration of book love
- De Cherilyn Parsons en 07-28-19
De: Pamela Paul
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Shanda
- A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy
- De: Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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The word "shanda" is defined as shame or disgrace in Yiddish. This book, Shanda, tells the story of three generations of complicated, intense twentieth-century Jews for whom the desire to fit in and the fear of public humiliation either drove their aspirations or crushed their spirit. In her deeply engaging, astonishingly candid memoir, author and activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin exposes the fiercely-guarded lies and intricate cover-ups woven by dozens of members of her extended family.
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Beautifully Written!
- De Adele Aron Greenspun en 01-12-23
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Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
- A Memoir
- De: Nicole Hardy
- Narrado por: Nicole Hardy
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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When Nicole Hardy’s eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy’s essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of 35, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.
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This Book Spoke to Me
- De Allison en 04-08-14
De: Nicole Hardy
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She Regrets Nothing
- A Novel
- De: Andrea Dunlop
- Narrado por: Rachel Dulude
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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When Laila Lawrence becomes an orphan at 23, the sudden loss unexpectedly introduces her to three glamorous cousins from New York who show up unannounced at her mother's funeral. The three siblings are scions of the wealthy family from which Laila's father had been estranged long before his own untimely demise 10 years before. Two years later, Laila has left behind her quiet life in Grosse Point, Michigan to move to New York City, landing her smack in the middle of her cousins' decadent world.
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Good Listen
- De Vallena en 02-19-18
De: Andrea Dunlop
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Ordinary Light
- A Memoir
- De: Tracy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Tracy K. Smith
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be Black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Simply spoken - poetic
- De CarolynneRHarris en 04-27-15
De: Tracy K. Smith
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Redefining Realness
- My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
- De: Janet Mock
- Narrado por: Janet Mock
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering listeners accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population.
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A Wonderful Memoir
- De Jo en 01-24-16
De: Janet Mock
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The Priority List
- A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons
- De: David Menasche
- Narrado por: David Menasche
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His passion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them through personal struggles while sharing valuable life lessons.
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Truly Inspiring!!
- De Trish en 07-13-14
De: David Menasche
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Bright Lights, Big City
- De: Jay McInerney
- Narrado por: Daniel Passer
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.
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Curiously, mundanely real
- De Amber en 01-07-12
De: Jay McInerney
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This Could Hurt
- A Novel
- De: Jillian Medoff
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo, Nick Podehl, Saskia Maarleveld, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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Rosa Guerrero beat the odds as she rose to the top of the corporate world. An attractive woman of a certain age, the longtime chief of human resources at Ellery Consumer Research is still a formidable presence, even if her most vital days are behind her. A leader who wields power with grace and discretion, she has earned the devotion and loyalty of her staff. No one admires Rosa more than her doting lieutenant Leo Smalls, a benefits vice president whose whole world is Ellery.
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Awesome!
- De Donna D. Lewis en 02-05-18
De: Jillian Medoff
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Trans Figured
- My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man
- De: Brian Belovitch
- Narrado por: Joel Froomkin
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Brian Belovitch has the rare distinction of coming out three times: first as a queer teenager; second as a glamorous transgender woman named Tish, and later, Natalia Gervais; and finally as an HIV-positive gay man surviving the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. From growing up in a barely-working-class first-generation immigrant family in Fall River, Massachusetts, to spinning across the disco dance floor of Studio 54 in New York City, Brian escaped many near-death experiences. Trans Figured chronicles a life lived on the edge with an unforgettable cast of characters.
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How utterly exhausting
- De Leah en 11-19-18
De: Brian Belovitch
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Montaigne in Barn Boots
- An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
- De: Michael Perry
- Narrado por: Michael Perry
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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"The journey began on a gurney", writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens pecking at scraps - including those eye-blinking moments when the bird gobbles something too big to swallow - Perry attempts to learn what he can (good and bad) about himself as compared to a long-dead French nobleman who began speaking Latin at the age of two.
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A beacon in a dark time
- De Damion en 01-13-18
De: Michael Perry
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- DONTTRYIT
- 12-07-21
Wow
Let me reiterate, WOW! I'm trying to think of something else to say, perhaps a more clear reaction, but no other word comes to mind. What love, what emotion, what truth of life...and death! This memoir is well worth the read...or in this case, the listen
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- Alicia Olivares
- 09-21-21
Life is short
Story was too short...what was the point. What happened to her own life?? Should of been a lil longer.
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- Fr0gStar
- 05-10-23
Wonderfully written story about life and loss
i liked the frankness of this memoir, as well as the thoughtful descriptions of life used throughout. This story will resonate with anyone who has a strong sense of humor while simultaneously facing an unexpected·loss.
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- madeline wariner
- 02-15-22
Not what I expected…. But we’ll done
Just a preceptive view on Addiction. I loved hearing her take on it keep up the good work
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- L Jackson
- 11-23-21
well written
This author writes well! She makes words sing despite the subject matter. The love for her sister shines through.
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- Victoria JD.
- 02-04-22
Very Engaging and Blunt out of Necessity
I really liked this. Great narration. Very sad story, but some things need to be blunt. No sugarcoating. Very impressed with the author's ability to describe her experience. The nice front picture photo gives me the feeling that she's now happily married with 2 adorable kids. I hope so. Thank you.
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- yo
- 02-25-22
Overpriced—and it was free.
I don’t know what was worse—the writing or the narrating. I couldn’t listen to more than 20 minutes as the prose was so sophomoric and the narration so creepy/weird. Ugh.
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- julie moniz
- 02-03-21
Slow and pointless
I’m sorry but this was so boring I had to push to get through it. I feel like it had no point to the book. It should have dug deeper so there would have been an actual story line.
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- melissa monti
- 03-15-21
great
super writing and narration. funny and sad. thought provoking. I will read this author again.
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- Charlotte Madia
- 04-15-21
Fantastic Potential
I can definitely say I love the story in the sense that it feels like a nice teaser. there's so much more the reader is missing I think this story needs to be expanded into a fuller book. What was her reasoning for drinking? The layout was a bit confusing as there was no clear timeline. If the author came out with an extended detailed story I'd be willing to give it a try.
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