Before We Forget Kindness: A Novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Apartment Women: A Novel by Gu Byeong-Mo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743491 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743491] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Apartment Women: A Novel Author: Gu Byeong-Mo Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: *INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* From the New York Times Notable author of The Old Woman with the Knife comes a bracingly original story of family, marriage and the cultural expectations of motherhood, about four women whose lives intersect in dramatic and unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex outside Seoul When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she’s ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbors, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years. Yet, from the day she arrives, Yojin feels uneasy about the community spirit thrust upon her. Her concerns grow as communal child care begins and the other parents show their true colors. Apartment Women traces the lives of four women in the apartments, all with different aspirations and beliefs. Will they find a way to live peacefully? Or are the cultural expectations around parenthood stacked against them from the start? A trenchant social novel from an award-winning author, Apartment Women incisively illuminates the unspoken imbalance of women’s parenting labor, challenging the age-old assumption that “it takes a village” to raise a child.

Running Out of Air by Lilli Sutton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743488 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743488] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Running Out of Air Author: Lilli Sutton Narrator: Lindsey Dorcus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: "An exhilarating adventure." —Zoje Stage, USA Today bestselling author of Baby Teeth and Dear Hanna A smart, thrilling and powerful debut by Lilli Sutton that asks what it costs to pursue your wildest dreams? Evelyn and Sophie, sisters and best friends, were known as one of the climbing world’s strongest teams—but that was before Evelyn had an affair with Sophie’s husband. Now they can’t even be in the same room together. That is, until they’re both offered a mountaineer’s dream: a chance to summit the eight-thousand-meter peak Yama Parvat. Sophie has been aimless since Evelyn’s betrayal. She hasn’t summited a Himalayan mountain in nearly two years, all the joy drained from the sport for her, and this trek offers a chance to reestablish herself as a top climber before her sponsors withdraw their funding. Evelyn has been happy with Miles since he left Sophie, but guilt continues to shadow her, clouding her judgment and the ability to move forward. Now she’s willing to gamble everything for the chance to be part of the first team to summit this as-yet unclimbed mountain and prove herself a capable leader. Stranded during a devastating storm on top of the world, Evelyn and Sophie are forced to climb together. Whether or not they make it off the mountain alive hinges on their trust in one another—something lost years ago—as they face down the question of how much they’re willing to sacrifice to get it all back.

Before We Forget Kindness: A Novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743487 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743487] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Before We Forget Kindness: A Novel Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Narrator: Kevin Shen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: - The father who could not allow his daughter to get married - A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one - A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents - A wife holding a child with no name . . . They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before we forget kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future. Catch up on the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:  - Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Tales from the Cafe - Before Your Memory Fades - Before We Say Goodbye

This Motherless Land: A Novel by Nikki May

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736013 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736013] to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Motherless Land: A Novel Author: Nikki May Narrator: Florence Howard, Weruche Opia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ''A vibrant coming-of-age story.'' — Charmaine Wilkerson ''I was completely immersed.” — Nita Prose From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a stunning reimagining of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park: Split between England and Nigeria, two extraordinary cousins are set on vastly different paths as they come to terms with their shared family history—a masterful exploration of race, identity, and love.  Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes, she’s sent to England, a place she knows only from her mother’s stories. To her dismay, she finds the much-lauded estate dilapidated, the food tasteless, the weather grey. Worse still, her mother’s family are cold and distant. With one exception: her cousin Liv. Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family. She becomes fiercely protective of her little cousin, and her warmth and kindness give Funke a place to heal. The two girls grow into adulthood the closest of friends. But the choices their mothers made haunt Funke and Liv and when a second tragedy occurs their friendship is torn apart. Against the long shadow of their shared family history, each woman will struggle to chart a path forward, separated by country, misunderstanding, and ambition. Moving between Somerset and Lagos over the course of two decades, This Motherless Land is a sweeping examination of identity, culture, race, and love that asks how we find belonging and whether a family’s generational wrongs can be righted.

The Children of Jocasta: A Novel by Natalie Haynes

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746331 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746331] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Children of Jocasta: A Novel Author: Natalie Haynes Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “Reinterprets two of Sophocles’ Theban plays, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. . . . the alternating structure proves powerful.”—The New Yorker “A passionate and gripping account of a famously dysfunctional family. Haynes balances a fresh take on the material with a deep love for her sources, wearing her scholarship with grace, and giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene.”—Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe The New York Times bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind returns with a powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked. When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced . . . Because that is what happened the last time, and that is why my siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . . Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change. With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as we’ve known it.