We Are LIT's Passport to Summer Listening
Summer is here! Rather you are traveling afar, planning an exciting stay-cation, or engaging in some serious armchair wanderlust; here are 8 books to listen to that will transport you around the world!
The Secrets Between Us
A Novel
By Thrity Umrigar
Narrated by Sneha Mathan / 11 hours 55 minutes
The Secrets Between Us
“This wonderful novel — loosely a sequel to The Spaces Between Us—is the rich, moving story of an amazing friendship, one that would never have occurred under the old restrictions of India and in the new India feels its tentative way. The lives of Bhima and Parvati are ones of unbelievable poverty and struggle, but the dignity and richness their friendship manifests took my breath away. A bit Dickensian in the best ways, this novel had me in tears several times. These women are two I will not soon forget.”
Michael Coy, Third Place Books
Song of a Captive Bird
A Novel
By Jasmin Darznik
Narrated by Mozhan Marnò / 10 hours 51 minutes
LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society’s expectations to find her voice and her destiny
“A complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people; a reminder of the power and purpose of art; and an ode to female creativity under... Read More »
The Line Becomes a River
Dispatches from the Border
By Francisco Cantú
Narrated by Francisco Cantú / 6 hours 29 minutes
The Line Becomes a River
“Cantu personalizes the U.S.-Mexican border and all of its complexity in a way I've never seen. His writing is beautiful, with haunting and detailed descriptions of the desert, the immigrants, the cartels, and his own fears about violence and identity confusion. The criminalization of searching for a better life and the dehumanization of the process is looked at from several angles, and his journalistic approach does not make judgments, but clearly tells the facts. A great new writer to follow.”
Pat Marsello, Bookworks
The Terrible
A Storyteller's Memoir
By Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by Yrsa Daley-Ward & Howard Daley-Ward / 3 hours 59 minutes
From the celebrated poet behind bone, a lyrical memoir--part prose, part verse--about coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and the beauty of the wider world, and redemption through self-discovery and the bonds of family
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"My little brother and I saw a unicorn in the garden in the late nineties.
I'm telling you. Neither one of us made it up; it... Read More »
There There
A novel
By Tommy Orange
Narrated by Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo & Kyla Garcia / 7 hours 59 minutes
There There
“A stunning debut novel by an original voice. Twelve characters of Native American descent, interrelated by birth or chance, struggle with the competing forces of cultural history and modern urban existence. Their stories build separately before colliding powerfully in the book’s final pages at The Big Oakland Powwow. I was riveted.”
Keltie, Parnassus Books
Love in the Time of Cholera
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Edith Grossman
Narrated by Armando Duran / 15 hours 39 minutes
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born... Read More »
Rainbirds
By Clarissa Goenawan
Narrated by David Shih / 10 hours 10 minutes
Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister, Keiko's, sudden death. She was viciously stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister's affairs, still failing to understand why she chose to abandon the family and Tokyo for this desolate town... Read More »
Welcome to Lagos
A Novel
By Chibundu Onuzo
Narrated by Robin Miles / 9 hours 23 minutes
When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yemi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political scandal involving Nigeria's education minister, Chike becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a... Read More »