A Million Aunties by Alecia McKenzie audiobook

A Million Aunties: A Novel

By Alecia McKenzie
Read by Karl Ou2019Brian Williams and Robin Miles

Blackstone Publishing 9781617758928

Unabridged

Format : Retail CD (In Stock)
  • $29.95

    ISBN: 9781799970552

  • $29.95

    ISBN: 9781799970569

Runtime: 5.48 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

After a personal tragedy upends his world, American-born artist Chris travels to his mother’s homeland in the Caribbean hoping to find some peace and tranquility. He plans to spend his time painting in solitude and coming to terms with his recent loss and his fractured relationship with his father. Instead, he discovers a new extended and complicated “family,” with their own startling stories, including a love triangle. The people he meets help him to heal, even as he supports them in unexpected ways, through his art.

Told from different points of view, this is a compelling novel about unlikely love, friendship, and community, with several surprises along the way. The story takes place against the backdrop of rural Jamaica, New York City, and Paris, France.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“An emotionally resonant ode to adopted families and community resilience.” New York Times Book Review
“Delightfully original.” Ms. magazine
“Emotional, enthralling, and heartfelt…A story of loss and the infinite types of love.” Woman’s World
“The audiobook shines with an impeccable dual narration…A stunning audio for those who enjoy global, multigenerational family dramas.” Booklist (audio review)
“This bighearted narrative of love, loss, and family is handled with grace and beauty.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The writing is evocative, capturing vivid details…[of] racial identity, nonfamilial relationships, and the restorative nature of art.” Booklist (starred review)
“Through captivating character studies, quiet lovely writing and deceptively simple storytelling, McKenzie illuminates basic commonalities and rethinks what family and home mean.” Shelf Awareness
“An elegantly written and emotionally engrossing work of fiction.” Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize–winning author
“Under her deceptively revealing title, Alecia McKenzie recreates Jamaica’s enduring traditions in fresh and illuminating ways that make this one of the most avant-garde fictions I have read in a long time.” Curdella Forbes, author of A Tall History of Sugar

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Author Bio: Alecia McKenzie

Author Bio: Alecia McKenzie

Alecia McKenzie is a Jamaican writer currently based in France. Her first collection of short stories, Satellite City, and her novel, Sweetheart, have both won Commonwealth Writers prizes. Sweetheart has been translated into French and was awarded the Prix Carbet des Lycéens in 2017. Her other books include Stories from Yard, Doctor’s Orders, and When the Rain Stopped in Natland. McKenzie’s work has appeared in a range of literary magazines and in anthologies such as Stories from Blue Latitudes, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, Bridges, Global Tales, Girls Night In, and To Exist Is to Resist. She edited a collection of contemporary Jamaican short stories and co-edited Where We Started: Stories of Living Between Worlds, an anthology of writing from different countries.

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Details

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Available Formats : Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 5.48
Audience: Adult
Language: English