Give audiobooks, support local bookstores! Start gifting

Send as gift Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

Be Not Far from Me

by Mindy McGinnis

Narrator Brittany Pressley

This audiobook uses AI narration.

We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.

Learn more

Length 5 hours 28 minutes

Language English

Send as gift Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

Bookseller recommendation

“A contemporary, female-driven Hatchet. This is a brutal, beautiful novel about struggle and willpower and surrender. It horrified me and I couldn't stop listening. One of my top listens in 2020.”
— Jenny • Page 158 Books

Bookseller recommendation

“You think you’re having a bad day? Ashley is alone, lost in the wilderness, without supplies or even shoes, and the infection taking hold of her badly crushed foot will likely kill her before she dies of starvation and/or exposure. This is a thrilling tale of courage and stamina that will remind readers to sign up and pay attention when that next survival training class at summer camp is offered.”
— Becky • Rediscovered Books

Summary
About the author

Hatchet meets Wild in this harrowing YA survival story about a teenage girl’s attempt to endure the impossible, from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species, Mindy McGinnis.

The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof.

So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her. But people are not tame either. And when Ashley catches her boyfriend with another girl, drunken rage sends her running into the night, stopped only by a nasty fall into a ravine.

Morning brings the realization that she’s alone—and far off trail. Lost in undisturbed forest and with nothing but the clothes on her back, Ashley must figure out how to survive with the red streak of infection creeping up her leg.

Mystery & Thriller Romance YA Fiction

Mindy McGinnis is the author of several young adult novels, including A Long Stretch of Bad Days, The Last Laugh, The Initial Insult, Heroine, The Female of the Species, and A Madness So Discreet, winner of an Edgar Award. She writes across multiple genres, including postapocalyptic, historical, thriller, contemporary, mystery, and fantasy. While her settings may change, you can always count on her books to deliver grit, truth, and an unflinching look at humanity and the world around us. Mindy lives in Ohio. You can visit her online at mindymcginnis.com.