LEADER 00000nim 2200433Ka 4500 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 180314s2018 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 9781549144745 (sound recording) 037 19BA55FD-C2FA-4055-B452-75790F71836F|bOverDrive, Inc. |nhttp://www.overdrive.com 040 TEFOD|cTEFOD 099 eAudiobook OverDrive/Libby 100 1 Rowbottom, Allie,|enarrator,|eauthor. 245 10 Jell-O girls|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]|ba family history /|cAllie Rowbottom. 250 Unabridged. 260 Ashland :|bHachette Book Group,|c2018. 300 1 online resource (7 audio files) :|bdigital 306 07:47:58 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 audio|bs|2rdamedia 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 audio file|2rda 500 Unabridged. 511 0 Narrator: Allie Rowbottom. 520 A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade - told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege - but they were also haunted by suicides, cancer, alcoholism, and mysterious ailments. More than 100 years after that deal was struck, Allie's mother Mary was diagnosed with the same incurable cancer, a disease that had also claimed her own mother's life. Determined to combat what she had come to consider the "Jell-O curse" and her looming mortality, Mary began obsessively researching her family's past, determined to understand the origins of her illness and the impact on her life of Jell-O and the traditional American values the company championed. Before she died in 2015, Mary began to send Allie boxes of her research and notes, in the hope that her daughter might write what she could not. JELL-O GIRLS is the liberation of that story.A gripping examination of the dark side of an iconic American product and a moving portrait of the women who lived in the shadow of its fractured fortune, JELL-O GIRLS is a family history, a feminist history, and a story of motherhood, love and loss. In crystalline prose Rowbottom considers the roots of trauma not only in her own family, but in the American psyche as well, ultimately weaving a story that is deeply personal, as well as deeply connected to the collective female experience. 538 Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 217507 KB). 600 10 Rowbottom, Allie|xFamily. 600 30 Woodward family. 610 20 Jell-O Company|xHistory. 610 20 General Foods Corporation.|bJell-O Division|xHistory. 650 0 Family-owned business enterprises|zUnited States|xHistory. 655 7 Electronic audiobooks.|2local 856 40 |uhttps://naperville.overdrive.com/media/3877257 |zAvailable on OverDrive/Libby 856 42 |3Excerpt|uhttps://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=19ba55fd- c2fa-4055-b452-75790f71836f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com |zSample 856 42 |3Image|uhttps://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/ %7B19BA55FD-C2FA-4055-B452-75790F71836F%7DImg100.jpg |zLarge cover Image 856 42 |3Thumbnail|uhttps://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/ %7B19BA55FD-C2FA-4055-B452-75790F71836F%7DImg200.jpg |zThumbnail cover Image