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The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663091 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663091] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hive and the Honey Author: Paul Yoon Narrator: Raymond J. Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Winner of The Story Prize Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A Time Top 10 Best Fiction Book of 2023 and Must Read Book of 2023 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Library Journal, Electric Literature, and the New York Public Library “Expansive, haunting, and intimate, Paul Yoon’s new short story collection The Hive and the Honey…shows Yoon at the height of his powers.” —Sabir Sultan, Pen America From the beloved award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a spectacular collection of unique stories, each confronting themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries. A boy searches for his father, a prison guard, on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. The Hive and the Honey is a “virtuosic” (Vanity Fair) collection by celebrated author Paul Yoon, one that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters. How does a North Korean defector connect with the child she once left behind? What are the traumas that haunt a Korean settlement in Far East Russia? “Absorbing...Yoon details fully realized and flawed characters attempting to wade through the complexities of immigrant life...[and] asks urgent questions about what it really means to belong somewhere.” —Time, 100 Must-Read Books of 2023

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666363 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666363] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roman Stories Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Narrator: Michael Obiora, Carlotta Brentan, Deepti Gupta, Ari Fliakos, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR • The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories 'A delectable, sun-washed treat . . . the stories have the beating heart of the city itself, a place of magnificent decay and vibrant, varied life.' —Vogue In “The Boundary,” one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker’s daughter, who nurses a wound from her family’s immigrant past. In “P’s Parties,” a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friend’s yearly birthday gathering—until the husband crosses a line. And in “The Steps,” on a public staircase that connects two neighborhoods and the residents who climb up and down it, we see Italy’s capital in all of its social and cultural variegations, filled with the tensions of a changing city: visibility and invisibility, random acts of aggression, the challenge of straddling worlds and cultures, and the meaning of home. These are splendid, searching stories, written in Jhumpa Lahiri’s adopted language of Italian and seamlessly translated by the author and by Knopf editor Todd Portnowitz. Stories steeped in the moods of Italian master Alberto Moravia and guided, in the concluding tale, by the ineluctable ghost of Dante Alighieri, whose words lead the protagonist toward a new way of life.

We Have Always Been Who We Are by Sofia T. Romero

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654725 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654725] to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Have Always Been Who We Are Author: Sofia T. Romero Narrator: Carolina Hoyos, Inés Del Castillo, Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: From Pushcart Prize–nominated author Sofia T. Romero comes a breathtaking debut collection of interrelated stories suffused with magical realism. In stories that evoke the haunting beauty of New England beaches and resonate with a bittersweet loneliness, Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels her son’s fiancée on how to be a good wife to him, with disastrous consequences. A mysterious, commanding cat appears in a young woman’s home, as inexplicable as the demise of her years-long relationship with her boyfriend. At turns humorous, sorrowful, and whimsical, this collection spans the familiar setting of a college-town supermarket and eerie dystopias that are not just postpandemic but postart. Romero masterfully conveys the follies of youth and the regrets of life, and a sense of loss—of a relationship, a child, a time before—pervades each page. With this remarkable debut, Romero joins the ranks of writers such as Brenda Peynado and Marytza K. Rubio, offering a superb collection of speculative fiction with a distinctly Latina perspective. We Have Always Been Who We Are is at its heart a testament to the power of storytelling, and an invitation to develop our inner strength through the imagination.

Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666936 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666936] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Normal Rules Don't Apply Author: Kate Atkinson Narrator: Paterson Joseph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him. With clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharp social observation, Kate Atkinson conjures a feast for the imagination, a constantly changing multiverse in which nothing is quite as it seems. ‘What really binds these stories is their underlying theme, which has perhaps always been Atkinson’s true subject: the nature of storytelling itself’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Life in all of its surreal, tragic and comic glory is perfectly captured within these pages’ Red ‘Sublime’ Good Housekeeping ©2023 Kate Atkinson (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Mothers and Dogs: Stories by Fabio Morábito

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657033 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657033] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mothers and Dogs: Stories Author: Fabio Morábito Narrator: Gary Tiedemann, Marcio Catalano, Rogelio Ramos, Kyla Garcia, Thom Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Drawing from everyday life in Mexico and abroad, these subtle, unsettling stories probe the boundaries between sanity and madness, life and death, safety and danger. The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that show the emotional extremes in seemingly trivial details and quotidian situations: two brothers worry more about a dog locked in an apartment who hasn’t been fed than they do about their dying mother; when the lights go out on a racetrack, a man’s evening jog turns into a savage battle between runners; a daughter learns to draft business letters as an homage to her mother. As he deftly explores feelings of loneliness and despair endemic in modern society, Morábito weaves threads of unexpected humor and lightness.