Out of the Shadows
My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden
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4.3 • 31 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The tell-all memoir of Lunden Roberts's tumultuous relationship with Hunter Biden.
He was sitting there wearing nothing but parrot boxer briefs, organizing his pipes on his Rosemont Seneca desk. I was sitting in Barack Obama's actual chair from the Senate floor. I took another look at Hunter - this kind, intense, and startlingly transparent man - and thought, "this is definitely a guy I want to get to know better.”
That was the first time Lunden Roberts met Hunter Biden. She had moved to DC from Arkansas in an impulsive decision to apply for a grad program. Hunter radiated the “live-for-the-moment” energy she sought. What followed from that first meeting was a wild journey that would come to define Lunden’s young life in ways she never could have anticipated. Out of the Shadows chronicles that rollercoaster ride of a relationship, touching on the drug cook working in Rosemont Seneca's kitchen, strip clubs where Hunter might try the pole himself, protecting him from would-be terrorists in New York City, the night she grabbed two guns and was certain she would have to fatally shoot a crazed MMA fighter, and dozens of other stories that make the laptop debacle seem routine.
Lunden is finally ready to step into the light and tell her story. In her brave and honest memoir, she recounts the chaos, the broken trust, and ultimately the incredible love she found mothering and protecting the long-unacknowledged grandchild of the sitting President of the United States.
Customer Reviews
Beyond Huntsr’s own book, I see HB here more than anywhere
The author writes a candid, unedited view of Hunter Biden from what she knew when she was with him that I haven’t seen from any other source. Yes, it’s her perspective, but he seemed to be the most unfiltered around her. I see Beau as a very traumatized lost and grieving soul. There were times reading his ex-wife’s book where I really wondered do you really even care for this man? He is is the throes of depression and addiction leading to possibly death, and you can’t even ask, “Hunter, I see you struggling, I know why. You are still traumatized for losing your mother and daughter in one accident, now you have lost your survival mate,” a bond that not many of us can even begin to fathom. And she couldn’t just acknowledge, “I see your pain. I understand it. I love you, and I’m here for you,”
While this relationship could be co-dependent at times, I think had all the political pressure been off him, they may have stayed together. Navy wouldn’t have a Zoom dad — which as a child growing up without a father due to addiction is gold compared to nothing, but what about the stockings? The family Christmas cards? The Easter Egg Hunts? The things she is left out of because of whom? I don’t think it’s Joe. I think it’s either Jill or the new wife.
My biggest disappointment, and forgive me if my timing is wrong, but his book was called beautiful things — and Navy seemed to truly bring him joy, yet there isn’t one word of her or her mother and the time they spent together in the entire book? That’s some devastating denial.
Great Book
The power of love from a Mother for her daughter! Lots of respect for Lunden Roberts for always doing what best for Navey Joan,
Bad choices by a dumb woman
Gets knocked up by two drunks, makes horrible decisions and plays the victim. Also still votes democrat when her own baby daddy doesn't acknowledge her existence. Couldn't finish. Way too foolish and a bad move on her end even writing this. Yikes