Audiobooks Narrated by Margie Valine

Holding: A Memoir About Mothers, Drugs, and Other Comforts

"A stunning debut memoir about addiction, self-discovery, and the relationships between mothers and daughters, from an exciting new literary talent Brogan "[spins] the world's harshest truths into golden, beautiful sentences" reminiscent of the powerful writing in Wild and In the Dream House (Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman) Featuring electric, immersive prose and universal insights about human relationships-especially between adult daughters and mothers-this unflinching and deeply moving excavation of her own history and addiction recovery is equally revealing about the American experience in our time. At age 20, Karleigh Brogan and her boyfriend, Dale, moved into his parents' home. The young couple hid their heroin addiction and promised they would only be there temporarily. What started as a two-week stopgap became two years of habitation. Karleigh and Dale's mother, Glorianne, developed a complex relationship that was both toxic and tender. Glorianne became a stand-in for Karleigh's mother, whose affection and trust Karleigh had always longed for. Simultaneously, Glorianne, an adoptee, searched for the birth mother she never knew. In Holding, Karleigh Brogan brings the reader into her life before, during, and after her time with Dale and his parents, following the road that led from her endless lies to her family and herself, along the long, crooked, path to breaking the chains of her addiction so she could dream again of achieving the life-and the relationship with her own mother-she longed for."

Karleigh Frisbie Brogan (Author), Margie Valine (Narrator)

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Overland Before the Hippie Trail: Kathmandu and Beyond with a Van a Man and No Plan

"It is 1965 in this memoir when Patricia and her new husband set off on to Europe on their honeymoon. Little did she know that this trip would stretch into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget. While living rarely more than an arm’s distance apart in their VW van, they make their way from Europe and West Asia to South Asia, then continue across East Asia by train, bus, and hitchhiking. In those days with no mobile phones, no Internet, and few guidebooks, they were out of contact with family for months at a time while dodging a cholera epidemic in Iraq, staying in a palace in Pakistan, meeting a maharaja in India, and floating down the Mekong River in Laos. The journey had become a way of life, one in which they found a world that was not only large and varied, but filled with people who were curious, welcoming, and generous."

Patricia Noble Sullivan (Author), Margie Valine, Nathan Agin (Narrator)

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