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Thar She Blows by Susan Emshwiller
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Thar She Blows

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Narrator Gabrielle de Cuir

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Length 14 hours 53 minutes
Language English
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Caught in a redundant housewife existence, Ann never leaves her beige suburban home, her schlubby do-nothing son Brian is directionless after graduating high-school, and it looks like nothing will ever change. But when Brian is swallowed by a whale and Ann receives a garbled phone call from him, she is determined to find that monstrous beast and rescue her son. Experts, her ex, the pressโ€”everyone thinks sheโ€™s crazyโ€”but sheโ€™s committed to her worthy quest. Both Brian and Ann battle their skeptical inner voices in an inspiring journey of self-discovery, reinvention, survival, and sacrifice. As mother and son face epic adventures, they encounter unlikely allies from across the globe and might just find each other. Yet the ultimate danger is closing in โ€ฆ

Devilishly funny, heartbreaking, thrilling, this epic whale-of-a-tale combines absurdist magical realism with intimate family dynamics.

Susan Emshwillerย was raised in Levittown, New York, by writer Carol Emshwiller and sci-fi illustrator/avant-garde filmmaker Ed Emshwiller. Sheย is a produced screenwriter (including co-writer of the filmย Pollock), a filmmaker, published playwright, novelist, teacher, artist, and short-story writer.ย 

Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Cardโ€™s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guinโ€™s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angierโ€™s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazineโ€™s Golden Earphones Award. She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.

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