Katie Nash—the beloved heroine of Elizabeth Berg's previous novels Durable Goods and Joy School—is thirteen years old in 1961, and she's facing a summer full of conflict. Her father has enlisted her in two care-taking jobs—baby-sitting for the rambunctious Wexler boys and, equally challenging, looking after Mrs. Randolph, her elderly, bedridden neighbor. To make matters worse, Katie has been forcibly inducted into the "loser" Girl Scout troop, compliments of her only new friend Cynthia's controlling mother. Her only saving grace is a trip to her childhood hometown in Texas, to visit her best friend Cherylanne. But people and places change—and Cherylanne is no exception. When an act of betrayal leaves Katie wondering just what friends are really for, she learns to rely on the only one left she can trust: herself.
Full of the joys, anguish, and innocence of American adolescence, True to Form is a story sure to make listeners remember and reflect on their own moments of discovery and self-definition.
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Durable Goods
By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Natalie Ross
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“Radiant...startling and delicate.” —The Boston Globe
On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane,... Read more »
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Joy School
By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Natalie Ross
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction
Katie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much alone: her much-loved mother is dead; her new school is unaccepting of her; and her only friends fall far short of being ideal companions. When she accidentally falls through the... Read more »
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True to Form
By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Natalie Ross
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Katie Nash—the beloved heroine of Elizabeth Berg's previous novels Durable Goods and Joy School—is thirteen years old in 1961, and she's facing a summer full of conflict. Her father has enlisted her in two care-taking jobs—baby-sitting for the rambunctious Wexler boys and, equally challenging, looking after Mrs. Randolph, her elderly, bedridden... Read more »
Learn more| Author | Elizabeth Berg |
| Narrator | Natalie Ross |
| ISBN | 9781480501683 |
| Length | 6 hours 19 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Brilliance Audio |
| Publication date | March 5, 2014 |
| Edition | Unabridged |
| Genres | Fiction & Literature & Literary Fiction |
| Libro.fm rank | #152,526 Overall |
| Genre rank | #10,994 in Literary Fiction |