Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington

Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343603 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343603] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sabrina & Corina: Stories Author: Kali Fajardo-Anstine Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 2, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.  Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force. In “Sugar Babies,” ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. “Any Further West” follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In “Tomi,” a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, “Sabrina & Corina,” a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual. Sabrina & Corina is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home. Audiobook Table of Contents: Sugar Babies read by Almarie Guerra Sabrina & Corina read by Roxana Ortega Sisters read by Alma Cuervo Remedies read by Ana Isabel Julian Plaza read by Kyla Garcia Galapago read by Marisol Ramirez Cheesman Park read by Roxana Ortega Tomi read by Kyla Garcia Any Further West read by Marisol Ramirez All Her Names read by Alma Cuervo Ghost Sickness read by Roxana Ortega Advance praise for Sabrina & Corina “Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart, believable in everything they said and did. How tragic that American letters hasn’t met these women of the West before, women who were here before America was America. And how tragic that these working-class women haven’t seen themselves in the pages of American lit before. Thank you for honoring their lives, Kali. I welcome them and you.'—Sandra Cisneros “Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s collection of stories, Sabrina & Corina, isn’t just good, it’s masterful storytelling. Fajardo-Anstine is a fearless writer: her women are strong and scarred witnesses of the violations of their homelands, their culture, their bodies; her plots turn and surprise, unerring and organic in their comprehensiveness; her characters break your heart, but you keep on going because you know you are in the hands of a master. . . . Her stories move through the heart of darkness and illuminate it with the soul of truth. Comparisons came to mind: the Alice Munro of the high plains, the Toni Morrison of indigenous Latinas—but why compare her to anybody? She is her own unique voice, and her work will easily find a place, not just in Latinx literature but in American literature and beyond.”—Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

Look How Happy I'm Making You: Stories by Polly Rosenwaike

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343586 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343586] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Look How Happy I'm Making You: Stories Author: Polly Rosenwaike Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 19, 2019 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: 'A beautifully written and beautifully conceived series of stories about, well, conception...Among the thousands of books for prospective and new parents, I doubt any will make you feel more understood and less alone than this one.'--ANTHONY DOERR, author of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A candid, ultimately buoyant debut story collection about the realities of the 'baby years,' whether you're having one or not The women in Polly Rosenwaike's Look How Happy I'm Making You want to be mothers, or aren't sure they want to be mothers, or--having recently given birth--are overwhelmed by what they've wrought. Sharp and unsettling, wry and moving in its depiction of love, friendship, and family, this collection expands the conversation about what having a baby looks like. One woman struggling with infertility deals with the news that her sister is pregnant. Another woman nervous about her biological clock 'forgets' to take her birth control while dating a younger man and must confront the possibility of becoming a single parent. Four motherless women who meet in a bar every Mother's Day contend with their losses and what it would mean to have a child. Witty, empathetic, and precisely observed, Look How Happy I'm Making You offers the rare, honest portrayal of pregnancy and new motherhood in a culture obsessed with women's most intimate choices. Stories: “Grow Your Eyelashes,” read by Rebecca Lowman “Field Notes,” read by Julia Whelan “Period, Ellipsis, Full Stop,” read by Karissa Vacker “White Carnations,” read by Julia Whelan “Tanglewood,” read by Amanda Carlin “June,” read by Tara Sands “The Dissembler’s Guide to Pregnancy,” read by Karissa Vacker “Ten Warning Signs of Postpartum Depression,” read by Rebecca Lowman “Welcome to Your Family,” read by Cassandra Campbell “A Lady Who Takes Jokes,” read by Tara Sands “Love Bug, Sweetie Dear, Pumpkin Pie, Etc.,” read by Amanda Carlin “Parental Fade,” read by Cassandra Campbell Cover art: © 2019 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345076 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345076] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lot: Stories Author: Bryan Washington Narrator: Bryan Washington, Jd Jackson, Bahni Turpin, Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 19, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”  'Phenomenal' --Justin Torres, author of We the Animals 'Brilliant' --Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun “A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.” —The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight Garner A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, a reluctant chupacabra. Bryan Washington's brilliant, viscerally drawn world vibrates with energy, wit, raw power, and the infinite longing of people searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms.

We Don’t Live Here Anymore: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 1 by Andre Dubus

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342817 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342817] to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Don’t Live Here Anymore: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 1 Series: #1 of The Collected Short Stories and Novellas of Andre Dubus Author: Andre Dubus Narrator: Traber Burns, Bronson Pinchot, Andre Dubus, Cassandra Campbell, Joe Barrett, Robert Fass, Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: In the early 1970s, literary journals that contained Andre Dubus’ short stories were passed around among admiring readers. When his debut collection, Separate Flights, arrived in 1975, it was immediately celebrated and won the Boston Globe’s Laurence L. & Thomas Winship / PEN New England Award. The collection includes the novella We Don’t Live Here Anymore, which served as the basis for the 2004 film of the same title (nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival); the novella also introduces Dubus’ writer-protagonist Hank Allison, a character who continues to appear throughout his work. Two years later, the title story of Dubus’ sophomore collection Adultery and Other Choices continued the exploits of Hank Allison. “The title story alone will make it worth your while to go out and get the book,” wrote the New York Times Book Review. While the collection’s opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, later stories shift to darker struggles of adulthood, such as in “Andromache”—Dubus’ first story to appear in the New Yorker (1968)—which traces the aftermath of a tragic death during wartime.

Mouthful of Birds: Stories by Samanta Schweblin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343808 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343808] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mouthful of Birds: Stories Author: Samanta Schweblin Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 8, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection. Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications, leaving your pulse racing, and the line between the real and the strange blur. Audiobook table of contents: Headlights, read by Erin Bennett  Preserves, read by Allyson Ryan  Butterflies, read by Mark Bramhall  Mouthful of Birds, read by Kaleo Griffith  Santa Claus Sleeps at Our House, read by Kirby Heyborne  The Digger, read by Rob Shapiro  Irman, read by Mark Deakins The Test, read by Fred Sanders  Toward Happy Civilization, read by Mark Bramhall  Olingiris, read by Erin Bennett  My Brother Walter, read by Arthur Morey  The Merman, read by Hillary Huber  Rage of Pestilence, read by Paul Boehmer  Heads Against Concrete, read by Robbie Daymond  The Size of Things, read by Fred Sanders  Underground, read by Ray Porter  Slowing Down, read by Danny Campbell  On the Steppe, read by Cassandra Campbell  A Great Effort, read by  John H. Mayer  The Heavy Suitcase of Benavides, read by Josh Horowitz