***Author has a PhD in English literature from your College or university of Calgary and teaches British and creative composing at the faculty of the Rockies in Cranbrook, Uk Columbia, Canada ***Author’s 1st novel, The Bone tissue Cage, was a finalist in CBC’s Canada Reads competition. Vero and her spouse Shane have shifted out of the lovely suite above his parents’ garage and found themselves smack in the middle of adulthood?two children, two vehicles, two jobs. They are not coping well. In response to their looming about Between domestic breakdown, Vero and Shane get live-in help with their sons?a female through the Philippines named Ligaya (which means happiness); the children contact her LiLi. Vero justifies LiLi’s function in their home by insisting that she is portion of their family members, and she would go to great lengths in order to convenience her conscience. But variations persist; Vero grapples with her overextended role as a mother and struggles to maintain her relationship passionate, while LiLi silently bears the responsibility of a secret she left behind in the home. Between presents readers an intriguing, searing family portrait of two ladies from two different ethnicities. At the same time, it satirizes modern love, relationship, and parenthood by exposing the sense of entitlement and superiority at the heart of upper-middle-class UNITED STATES lifetime through a ubiquitous existence in it: the international nanny. Angie Abdou comically and tragically tackles the issue of worldwide nannies by giving a home window on motherhood where it is tangled up with class, career, labor, and desire. ‘Between is not a novel that you will forget easily with its dark laughter, its lifelike personas, and a story of many challenging relationships that lead to a jaw-dropping conclusion. Pick this book up — you will not be able to place it down.’ -Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom ‘In Between, Angie Abdou doesn’t take the predictable road. She deftly steers us into the deepest of psychological potholes, lands us in the ditch, and then finds a way back out once again. This book is definitely hilarious and disturbing, and a genuine look at marriage and parenthood as well as the ways that entitlement and sex can get wedges between us.’ -Farzana Doctor, writer of Six Metres of Pavement ‘In Between, it is the ladies who share the greatest burdens, yet still find it difficult to connect across lines of course and tradition. Abdou offers stared fraught subject material in the face and handled it with sophistication and humour. Her refreshing novel sympathetically discloses females as they are, imperfections and everything.’ -Quill and Quire ‘Between asks nuanced queries of and avoids pat answers on a thorny dilemma facing many family members today.’ -The World and Mail ‘Darkly funny and elegantly written … Abdou can be an important voice in Canadian fiction, and this strong new function will enlarge her currently considerable body of devoted visitors.’ -Vancouver Sun