![]() ![]() This generous and inspiring portrait of the Biden family is sure to be widely welcomed and enjoyed. The book ends with a moving tribute to her son Beau, who died from brain cancer in 2015. Biden describes the closeness of the family for example, after the couple decided to have a child together, Joe’s sons from his first marriage were the first to tell their dad of Biden’s pregnancy. Biden soon found herself engulfed in the “boisterous” Biden clan, a close-knit and fiercely loyal crew-Joe had two sons with his first wife, who died in a car accident along with their baby daughter a few years earlier-and she and Joe were married two years later. At 23, on her own and teaching English in Chadds Ford, Pa., she was surprised when dapper 31-year-old Sen. A rebellious teenager-she smoked cigarettes and snuck out to swim at night-Biden attended the University of Delaware and got married at age 18 but divorced a few years later. Biden grew up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the 1950s, the eldest of five girls born to a bank teller and a homemaker. ![]() In this charming memoir, Biden shares an intimate story of her life with former vice president Joe Biden. ![]()
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