Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

Western Alliances: A Novel by Wilton Barnhardt

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625405 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625405] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Western Alliances: A Novel Author: Wilton Barnhardt Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'Caroline Hewitt narrates this tale of the wealthy Costa family so intimately that listeners will be convinced she has insider status with this dysfunctional group.'- AudioFile From the New York Times-bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt’s Western Alliances is a vivid portrait of a wealthy family set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis. This laugh-out-loud, darkly funny novel follows the Costa family—whose members are every bit as richly absurd as the characters in HBO’s Succession. Salvador, the patriarch, runs one of Wall Street’s biggest banks the summer before everything collapses; Roberto and Rachel, his two children, have never worked a day in their lives; and Lena, his ex-wife, is a scheming hypochondriac. Part travelogue, part epic family drama, the novel follows Roberto and Rachel across Europe as the two dilettantes come to terms with their father’s choices and the repercussions of his actions. Oozing with his signature satire and biting wit, Barnhardt invites listeners on a literary romp from an elegant Paris apartment to a hilariously-inept London hotel, ancient churches and crypts to gleaming Mediterranean coasts, hot dog stands in Providence, Rhode Island to the best places in Manhattan, and terrifying encounters in the Serbian countryside to dangerous liaisons in Moscow, as two grown-up rich kids are forced to come of age at last. In Western Alliances Barnhardt he delivers a riveting saga examining privilege, loyalty, ambition, and what family members owe to one another. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

The Peach Seed: A Novel by Anita Gail Jones

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625407 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625407] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Peach Seed: A Novel Author: Anita Gail Jones Narrator: Anita Gail Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'Anita Gail Jones's narration transports listeners across centuries and continents as she details the complex history of a Southern Black family.'- AudioFile This program is read by the author, who brings more than twenty-five years of experience as a professional oral-tradition storyteller of global folklore as well as original and personal stories from her southwest Georgia upbringing. Fletcher Dukes and Altovise Benson reunite after decades apart—and a mountain of secrets—in this debut exploring the repercussions of a single choice and how an enduring talisman challenges and holds a family together. On a routine trip to the Piggly Wiggly in Albany, Georgia, widower Fletcher Dukes smells a familiar perfume, then sees a tall woman the color of papershell pecans with a strawberry birthmark on the nape of her neck. He knows immediately that she is his lost love, Altovise Benson. Their bond, built on county fairs, sit-ins, and marches, once seemed a sure and forever thing. But their marriage plans were disrupted when the police turned a peaceful protest violent. Before Altovise fled the South, Fletcher gave her a peach seed monkey with diamond eyes. As we learn via harrowing flashbacks, an enslaved ancestor on the coast of South Carolina carved the first peach seed, a talisman that, ever since, each father has gifted his son on his thirteenth birthday. Giving one to Altovise initiated a break in tradition, irrevocably shaping the lives of generations of Dukeses. Recently, Fletcher has made do on his seven acres with his daughter Florida’s check-ins, his drop biscuits, and his faithful dog. But as he begins to reckon with long-ago choices, he finds he isn’t the only one burdened with unspoken truths. An indelible portrait of a family, The Peach Seed explores how kin pass down legacies of sorrow, joy, and strength. And it is a parable of how a glimmer of hope as small as a seed can ripple across generations. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624934 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624934] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Human Failings Author: Megan Nolan Narrator: Jessica Regan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 13, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024. A Highly Anticipated Novel of 2023 in The Times, i-D, Esquire and the Guardian. When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the 'peasants' - ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star looks set to rise when he stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighbourhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and 'bad apples': the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life - and love - got in her way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, there's nowhere for her to go and no chance of escape. Now, with the police closing in on a suspect and the tabloids hunting their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations. ©2023 Megan Nolan (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Banyan Moon: A Novel by Thao Thai

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625246 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625246] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Banyan Moon: A Novel Author: Thao Thai Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Catherine Ho, Cindy Kay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick ''A riveting mother-daughter tale.'' — Elle ''Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington Post A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.  When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life—a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste—but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng. Back in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who’s always held them together. Running parallel to this is Minh’s story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life for her children. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House’s attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life—and beyond. Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626722 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626722] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Late Americans Author: Brandon Taylor Narrator: Kevin R. Free Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Selected as a Best Book of 2023 by the Guardian, Irish Times, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire and i-D The highly-anticipated new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author Brandon Taylor. An exploration of sex, love, identity and politics In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are. At the centre of the group are three dancers: Ivan, tall and stoic, who is leaving ballet for a career in finance; Fatima, whose work ethic earns her both admiration and enmity; and Noah, who 'didn't seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.' As they test their own desires in a series of relationships - and in other, clandestine ways - they are buffeted by other volatile figures in town, from an unruly, vulnerable young poet to a local landlord nursing a lifetime of resentment. Finally, after a series of violent encounters, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives, and waves of long-buried heartache resolve into moments of unexpected tenderness. Filled with scenes of aching intimacy, The Late Americans is Brandon Taylor's richest and most involving work of fiction to date, confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of loneliness and desire in contemporary life. ©2023 Brandon Taylor (P)2023 Penguin Audio