Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly Mcghee

The Afterpains by Anna Julia Stainsby

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646651 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646651] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Afterpains Author: Anna Julia Stainsby Narrator: Dianne Aguilar, Diana Pou, Hailey Gillis, Rebecca Auerbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD “Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book.” —Reema Patel, author of Such Big Dreams Gorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland—told in the voices of four distinct narrators. Nearly twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, Rosy is still reeling from all that she's lost. Desperate to repair the connections to the family she does have—her husband, Desmond, and her eighteen-year-old son, Eddie—she's determined to lay her grief to rest by the twentieth anniversary of her daughter’s death. At the same time, Isaura dreads what may be coming for her teenage daughter, Mivi. For centuries in her homeland of Honduras, the young women in Isaura's family have been subjected to a curse of teenage motherhood and the untimely death of the men they loved. But even after moving thousands of miles away from Pespire to Toronto, Isaura fears that her daughter will not be spared. Soon, Rosy and Isaura, essentially strangers, become connected in a way neither of them could predict. As they try to look to their future and their children’s, they struggle to put the past behind them—all while Eddie and Mivi contend with the weight of their mothers’ pain and guilt. Tender and compassionate, The Afterpains is a moving debut novel on motherhood, grief, identity, and belonging.

The Wide World: A Novel by Pierre Lemaitre

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642710 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642710] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide World: A Novel Author: Pierre Lemaitre Narrator: Philip Bird Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 41 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This electrifying novel of passion, greed, murder, and revenge follows the sweeping saga of one prominent French family in postwar Paris, Beirut, and Saigon. The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass on to his eldest son. With no head for management, Jean nearly runs the company into the ground, then marries a materialistic young woman who insists they emigrate to Paris and join high society. But there's another reason Jean must leave—he has committed a terrible crime... Youngest son Etienne is sent to make his fortune in Saigon. Soon, he begins investigating a covert scheme to channel smuggled goods and cash to the Viet Minh. But the evidence he amasses presents a real threat to his own life. François, the middle brother, arrives in Paris and tries his hand at journalism. His career begins to take off when he starts covering the brutal murder of an actress that seems part of a pattern of killings. But the killer he’s chasing is closer to him than he realizes. Epic in scope, and a vivid depiction of French life in the booming postwar years, TheGreatWorld is a riveting saga at once gripping and classic.

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly Mcghee

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647906 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647906] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Author: Molly Mcghee Narrator: Macleod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ‘Trippy, incisive, riotously funny’ ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN ‘[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH ‘Luminous … as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers’ room’ WASHINGTON POST A work place novel. A love story. A dream you can’t wake from… Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt. When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life? As Abernathy tries to find his footing in this new gig, reality and morality begin to warp around him. Soon, the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness, have blurred and Abernathy begins to wonder just what he might have signed away… Wildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the cult workplace novel that’s like nothing else you've read before. ‘Surrealist … A scathing critique of capitalism’ TIME 'Imagine the movie Inception, but populated by the middle-management workers in David Graeber’s book Bullshit Jobs' NEW YORK TIMES 'An excitingly original writer, inventing much needed and killingly funny satires for contemporary work and dreams of success' HOLLY PESTER ‘A revelation’ HILARY LEICHTER ‘An original mind brimming over with invention’ BEN MARCUS ‘An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut … very funny’ JEFF VANDERMEER ‘The spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier’ LITERARY HUB

Site Works by Robert Davidson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646087 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646087] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Site Works Author: Robert Davidson Narrator: Kenny Blyth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: On a wind lashed coast in the far north a group of men assemble on a construction site. The Ness and Struie Drainage Project will dominate their lives for the next few months when they will toil through the daylight hours and into the night, endure hardship and conflict, survive or, perhaps, not survive. Within the compound and wayleaves a new, temporary world will form, bounded by sea, mountains and sky. Site Works is the story of the men and their work, transients creating something permanent and greater than they know.

Desertion: A Novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649125 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649125] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Desertion: A Novel Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah Narrator: Damian Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and across continents—from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence. Early one morning in 1899, in a small, dilapidated town along the coast of Mombassa, a Muslim man, Hassanali, sets out for a mosque but doesn’t get there. Out of the desert stumbles an Englishman who collapses at Hassanali’s feet: Martin Pearce—writer, traveler, something of an Orientalist. Hassanali cares for Pearce until the Englishman is taken to the home of colonial officer Frederick Turner to recuperate. When Pearce returns to thank his Good Samaritan, he meets and is enraptured by Rehana, Hassanali’s sister—by her gorgeous eyes and tragic aura. And so begins the passionate, illicit love affair—two lives and cultures colliding—that informs the rich, finely woven tapestry of Desertion. Gurnah, who has been short-listed for the Booker Prize, deftly and dramatically evokes the personal and political scandals of empire, the weight of tradition—of religion and culture—in everyday lives, the role of women in Muslim society, the vicissitudes of love, the complexities of filial relationships, the inexorability of miscegenation, and the power of fiction to charm and to harm. Desertion is a highly achieved, riveting work of imagination, brimming with controlled figural inventiveness, psychological acuity, and moral complexity. Cover art by Lubaina Himid/ Hollybush Gardens