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Talking to the Sky
- A Memoir of Living My Best Life in a Sh!t Show
- Narrated by: Aimee Mayo
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
An unforgettable, harrowing yet hilarious story about growing up in the midst of chaos by award-winning songwriter Aimee Mayo. Mayo is one of the few females to receive both BMI's Country Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year awards, putting her in the rare company of Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift. Her songs have sold more than 155 million units worldwide and have spent 26 weeks at number one on the Billboard charts.
Aimee Mayo grew up in deep Alabama, rocked by the blow of a drunk man's fist before she even made it out of the womb. Her colorful and charismatic father went from a gambling janitor to a multimillionaire but died homeless. Her mother was wonderful when she wasn't popping pain pills like M&M's, and her stepdad made a weird science out of psychological abuse. Throughout her teens, Aimee survived by writing compulsively in diaries, dreaming of becoming a songwriter, and finding her soulmate.
After accidentally burning down her house - just one in a series of disasters - at 20 years old she found herself lost with no path to the life she had always longed for. She tried to kill herself and almost succeeded. Finally, Aimee made it to Nashville. She started out a waitress, married to a wife-beating country singer, but never lost sight of her dreams. Talking to the Sky is her unforgettable memoir, the harrowing and hilarious story of believing in faith over fear and going after your dreams when everything is going against you.
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- Merlin
- 17-06-22
Amazing memoir from an amazing songwriter
Finished listening in two days. Brilliantly written (and narrated) memoir that is at times laugh out loud hilarious and utterly heart breaking. Some beautiful lyrical phrases and descriptions that just stopped me in my tracks and a wonderful cast of characters, not least of all Danny Mayo (who provides a few of the more far out anecdotes)
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