AUGUST 22

Funeral for Flaca

Essays

By: Emilly G. Prado
Narrated by: Emilly G. Prado
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Funeral for Flaca is an exploration of things lost and found—love, identity, family—and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and generations.Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres... Read more

Why Didn't You Tell Me?

A Memoir

By: Carmen Rita Wong
Narrated by: Carmen Rita Wong
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her identity, and her place in the world in this powerful and dramatic memoir

“Riveting . . . [Wong] tells her story in vivid conversational prose that will make readers feel they’re listening to a master storyteller on a long car trip. . . . Hers is a... Read more

Five-Part Invention

By: Andrea J. Buchanan
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley, Jayme Mattler, Susan Hanfield, Jackie Meloche & Jane Oppenheimer
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

When Lise, a pianist, suffers a nervous breakdown early in her marriage, her husband, in a warped act of protection and jealousy, has her piano taken away. With prose that is precise and emotionally affecting, Andrea J. Buchanan vividly renders how Lise's separation from her one source of expression and fulfillment cascades into her relationship... Read more

Gods of Want

Stories

By: K-Ming Chang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho, Natalie Naudus, Elaine Wang, Nancy Wu & Annie Q
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Startling stories center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women in “a voracious, probing collection, proof of how exhilarating the short story can be” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)—from the National Book Award “5 Under 35” honoree and author of Bestiary

“Wise, energetic, funny, and wild, Gods... Read more

The Empire of Dirt

A Novel

By: Francesca Manfredi
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

In this captivating English-language debut, three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens.



There has always been tension in "the blind house," where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentina's pious grandmother often hints at a family curse, while... Read more

Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

“The twelve stories intersect creating more of a novel than a set of separate stories. I love the characters--Paige, Frick, Fellis, grandmother, mom, Tyson, and JP, all of them doing the best they can under the circumstances. I think what I love most is that the stories are told without judgment or snark but with compassion and understanding.... Read more

Dead-End Memories

Stories

By: Banana Yoshimoto
Narrated by: Kathleen Li
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and the sorrows that surround us in everyday life



First published in Japan in 2003, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly... Read more