Valerie Biden Owens is Joe Biden’s younger sister; she has also managed every political campaign for him, in addition to other work. In this memoir, she details her upbringing as the only daughter in an Irish-Catholic family with four sons. She discusses their education, their marriages, and their tragedies.
It’s clear their bond is unusually strong; Joe refers to her as his best friend since he was three. Valerie became a surrogate mother to the two young boys who survived the car crash that killed their mother and baby sister. The underlying emphasis is that faith and family are important to the Bidens.
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What I’m ReadingI began working in libraries as a seventh grader, courtesy of scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon wrote me a pass to miss gym class, so I began working in the school library to feed my love of reading. Even after my surgery to correct the curvature, I kept getting out of gym to work in my high school library and then in my college library (for pay, at last!).
So began my eventual career as a college reference librarian—after a detour into teaching high school English. Later I worked for an educational publisher before going back to libraries.
I have a reading and writing life now. I devour both fiction and nonfiction, and will tell you about some of my favorite reads, both old friends and new discoveries.
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