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The Sunken Town
- Author
- Karen Nelson
- Narrator
- Ellie Gossage
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 29 April 2025
- Run Time
- 6 hours 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Lindsay, a thirty-year-old California native, never gave much thought to being adopted. When she unexpectedly inherits her birth mother Claire's farmhouse in Maine, she is plunged into a journey across the country and across the years into a lake of secrets that will ultimately reveal just how far everyone was willing to go to protect her. Told from both Lindsay's and Claire's points of view, The Sunken Town explores adoption, identity, the nature of family dynamics, mother-daughter relationships, the impact of family secrets, the weight of motherhood, and the lasting consequences of the choices people make.
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Details
- Author
- Karen Nelson
- Narrator
- Ellie Gossage
- Duration
- 6 hours 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 April 2025
- ISBN
- 9798331950040
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction
Synopsis
If you admit on truth, what else will you have to acknowledge?Lindsay, a thirty-year-old California native, never gave much thought to being adopted. When she unexpectedly inherits her birth mother Claire's farmhouse in Maine, she is plunged into a journey across the country and across the years into a lake of secrets that will ultimately reveal just how far everyone was willing to go to protect her. Told from both Lindsay's and Claire's points of view, The Sunken Town explores adoption, identity, the nature of family dynamics, mother-daughter relationships, the impact of family secrets, the weight of motherhood, and the lasting consequences of the choices people make.
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