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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
- A Novel
- De: Deepa Anappara
- Narrado por: Indira Varma, Himesh Patel, Antonio Aakeel
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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Down market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws lies a jumble of tin-roofed homes where nine-year-old Jai lives with his family. Jai drools outside sweet shops, watches too many reality police shows, and considers himself to be smarter than his friends, Pari and Faiz. When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants, and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit.
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Striking Postcolonial Perspective But Falls Short
- De Joe Kraus en 02-11-20
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
- A Novel
- De: Deepa Anappara
- Narrado por: Indira Varma, Himesh Patel, Antonio Aakeel
The story
Revisado: 04-12-25
This story was true but still a problem that is happening even now in many countries. I was saddened by the ending and regretted listening to it at night but it will be in my nightmares.
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- Poems
- De: Warsan Shire
- Narrado por: Warsan Shire
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
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With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls.
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The poems
- De Anne en 04-02-25
- Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- Poems
- De: Warsan Shire
- Narrado por: Warsan Shire
The poems
Revisado: 04-02-25
The poems really stood out. I enjoyed reading the poems even when some of them were very sad.
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Nervous Conditions
- De: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Narrado por: Chipo Chung
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, 13-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings and extended family, and within her burns the desire for independence. A timeless coming-of-age tale and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism, Nervous Conditions charts Tambu's journey to personhood in a nation that is also emerging.
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Narrator
- De Anathi en 09-25-22
- Nervous Conditions
- De: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Narrado por: Chipo Chung
The performance
Revisado: 03-19-25
The story was sad and I felt sad for Nyasha especially seeing her wasting away and then the scene with the psychology really angered me. It made me think of how women especially women of color are not taking serious in hospitals and even mocked. The title of the story really fit.
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How Beautiful We Were
- A Novel
- De: Imbolo Mbue
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made - and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests.
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As relevant as it is heart-wrenching
- De Anonymous User en 10-18-21
- How Beautiful We Were
- A Novel
- De: Imbolo Mbue
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, JD Jackson, Allyson Johnson, Lisa Renee Pitts
The story
Revisado: 03-05-25
The story is chilling because there are countries that this is happening to and I shiver at that recognition. This story was gripping and scary at the same time because it is happening if people do not stop it.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- De: George Saunders
- Narrado por: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 44 m
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For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- De Scott Garrioch en 01-14-21
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- De: George Saunders
- Narrado por: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong, Renée Elise Goldsberry
The revision of the stories
Revisado: 03-03-25
I love hearing about the stories and what inspired them and the revisions aspects of them.
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
- Essays
- De: Alexander Chee
- Narrado por: Daniel K. Isaac
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a friend. He examines some of the most formative experiences of his life and the nation's history.
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The unexpected how-to
- De Mark A. en 07-03-19
- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
- Essays
- De: Alexander Chee
- Narrado por: Daniel K. Isaac
The author’s voice
Revisado: 11-20-24
I enjoyed listening to this but the part of him dating a student made me disappointed in me. I don’t care if the kid graduate before they started dating it is an unbalance in power especially seen with what happened in the relationship. I am glad the author learned from the relationship.
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The Book of Delights
- Essays
- De: Ross Gay
- Narrado por: Ross Gay
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a Black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves.
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A True Delight!
- De Danielle C. Miller en 02-25-19
- The Book of Delights
- Essays
- De: Ross Gay
- Narrado por: Ross Gay
The author
Revisado: 11-06-24
I like the stories but it felt like desert instead of a full fleshed out meal.
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Salvage the Bones
- A Novel
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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A hurricane is building, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; she's 14 and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.
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Good but I wish I hadn't read it.
- De Jeanie en 01-26-21
- Salvage the Bones
- A Novel
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
The book shows us the dangers of low self esteem and seeking love and devotstion without Loving yourself first
Revisado: 05-14-24
The main character was a pitiful character. It is obvious that she has low self esteem and craves the affection of a man because she allows so many boys to ficl her and there is the
Fsct she is fifteen years and is pregnant by someone who has a girlfriend and only sees as a tool to pump and dumb. The story was grating because the only character I liked was Junior and Big Henry. I thought the story was interesting and i was glad that they survive but they still pissed me off. I am using the main character as a person not to be like and what it looks like
To have low self esteem and what looking
For validation outside when you should be looking at it from the inside.
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Blacktop Wasteland
- A Novel
- De: S. A. Cosby
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Beauregard "Bug" Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hardworking dad. Bug knows there's no future in the man he used to be: Known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast. He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat.
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Fantastic All Around
- De stuartjash en 07-16-20
- Blacktop Wasteland
- A Novel
- De: S. A. Cosby
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
Bug pissed me off
Revisado: 04-30-24
I really enjoyed listening to this book, but Bug really pissed me off. This book is a very good way to show someone how every decision that one makes has consequences, and one cannot blame someone else. Bug was the one who agreed to be the getaway driver for Reggie and his friend. Everything that happened with Lazy is on him. All those senseless deaths were a consequence of his decision. The young man who died, that was on him, and that death really upset me because it was his fault that he died. This book was good, but Bug really pissed me off because he was smart and dumb at the same time. He holds himself accountable, but he says that he wouldn’t change.
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Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- De Kennedi Hill en 11-07-19
- Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
Too many plots felt like twenty books in one
Revisado: 04-03-24
I enjoyed the author's reading, but the story was very confusing. I didn’t know the chronological order because the story kept jumping, and there were so many characters to keep track of that I wasn’t invested in any of them.
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