Child’s Play Audiobook (Free)
- Dan John Miller
- 6 h 55 min
- Recorded Books
- 2019-10-08
Summary:
The lessons our children teach us will be the hardest ones. What do we do when our children don’t go after our expectations for them? With this riveting fresh novel, Danielle Metal explores how families can evolve and grow in unforeseen ways. A senior partner at a renowned New York lawyer, Kate Morgan couldn’t become prouder of her three expanded kids. Tamara, Anthony, and Claire all went to great schools, chose wonderful career paths, and would have produced their father very pleased. A single mother for a long time after about Child’s Play the death of her husband, Kate keeps a tight rein on her family, her profession, and even her own feelings, never once asking herself if she really knows her children . or if her hopes for them are the right types, and what they need. She is going to find out. During one frantic summer season in Manhattan, Kate’s world turns ugly. One child continues to be keeping an astonishing magic formula while another confesses to an similarly shocking truth. A wonderful match and picture-book wedding ceremony are traded to get a romantic relationship that shakes her to her core. A totally unacceptable love affair and an out-of-wedlock baby total the chaos. Challenged like a mother and as a successful 3rd party girl herself, Kate struggles to keep up having a dizzying and escalating string of occasions, and begins to understand that she’s a part to try out in the chaos. Because Kate too has held secrets from her kids. Sometimes the unexpected choices our kids make will be the ideal ones . . . much better than what we desired on their behalf. Generally, parenting is about letting proceed of our dreams and embracing theirs.