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All the Best People
- Author
- Sonja Yoerg
- Narrator
- Lisa Flanagan
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 2 May 2017
- Run Time
- 10 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Vermont, 1972. Carole LaPorte has a satisfying, ordinary life. She cares for her children, balances the books for the family’s auto shop, and laughs when her husband slow dances her across the kitchen floor. Her tragic childhood might have happened to someone else.
But now her mind is playing tricks on her. The accounts won’t reconcile and the murmuring she hears isn’t the television. She ought to seek help, but she’s terrified of being locked away in a mental hospital like her mother, Solange. So Carole hides her symptoms, withdraws from her family, and unwittingly sets her eleven-year-old daughter Alison on a desperate search for meaning and power: in Tarot cards, in omens from a nearby river, and in a mysterious blue glass box belonging to her grandmother.
An exploration of the power of courage and love to overcome a damning legacy, All the Best People celebrates the search for identity and grace in the most ordinary lives.
Critics Review
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“Gorgeously written and unforgettable, your heart will break and swell in equal measure.”
Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author
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“Not just the best people, but real people: authentic, quirky, and troubled. I cared for them all.”
Chris Bohjalian, author of The Sleepwalker
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“Beautifully rendered and aching in its portrayal of a mother’s slide into mental illness—destined to be a book club favorite.”
Christopher Scotton, author of The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
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Details
- Author
- Sonja Yoerg
- Narrator
- Lisa Flanagan
- Duration
- 10 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 May 2017
- ISBN
- 9781538408360
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Historical fiction
Synopsis
Vermont, 1972. Carole LaPorte has a satisfying, ordinary life. She cares for her children, balances the books for the family’s auto shop, and laughs when her husband slow dances her across the kitchen floor. Her tragic childhood might have happened to someone else.But now her mind is playing tricks on her. The accounts won’t reconcile and the murmuring she hears isn’t the television. She ought to seek help, but she’s terrified of being locked away in a mental hospital like her mother, Solange. So Carole hides her symptoms, withdraws from her family, and unwittingly sets her eleven-year-old daughter Alison on a desperate search for meaning and power: in Tarot cards, in omens from a nearby river, and in a mysterious blue glass box belonging to her grandmother. An exploration of the power of courage and love to overcome a damning legacy, All the Best People celebrates the search for identity and grace in the most ordinary lives.
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