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Vero and her husband Shane have moved out of the sweet suite above his parents' garage and found themselves smack in the middle of adulthoodtwo kids, two cars, two jobs. They are not coping well. In response to their looming domestic breakdown, Vero and Shane get live-in help with their sonsa woman from the Philippines named Ligaya (which means happiness), whom the boys call LiLi. Vero justifies LiLi's role in their home by insisting that she is part of their family, and she goes to great lengths in order to ease her conscience. But differences persist; Vero grapples with her overextended role as a mother and struggles to keep her marriage passionate, while LiLi silently bears the burden of a secret she left behind at home. Between offers readers an intriguing, searing portrait of two women from two different cultures. At the same time, it satirizes contemporary love, marriage, and parenthood by exposing the sense of entitlement and superiority at the heart of upper-middle-class North American existence through a ubiquitous presence in it: the foreign nanny. Angie Abdou comically and tragically tackles the issue of international nannies by providing a window on motherhood where it

Who reads Between?

Author

Angie Abdou

Publisher

Arsenal Pulp Press Ltd.

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781551525686

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (165 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14