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Lori J. Moran
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Marie Chow
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Plant Your Feet Firmly is an intimate glimpse of Asian America. Through the pages of seven short stories, the listener is treated to a delicate taste of ordinary people living extraordinary lives - from a cool grandpa to a grieving mother to a disillusioned husband.
In a sampling, "Mothers and Wives" lives up to the standard of excellence set by this collection. College classmates gather for their regular dinner and drinks, all women of distinction and best buds from school, mulling over the news that one of their own is divorcing. As they share and care, there are more secrets floating around than ice in their drinks. But one member holds her betrayal close to her heart, never guessing that a casual question could derail her life and cast a naked spotlight on her own marriage.
Another juicy offering, "Cosmetics" is the charming, funny story chronicling letters between a grandpa ("No grandpa Paul for me, just grandpa!") and his granddaughter. This Starbucks coffee drinking grandfather is not just another gramps! His tongue in cheek commentaries and keen perspective of human behavior will have you laughing all day long. "Plant Your Feet Firmly, on Two Moving Boats" is a lesson in political politeness concerning Asian Americans. If "Cosmetics" makes you laugh, this story will make you howl - told only as Marie Chow can, with humor, pathos, and an uncanny understanding of the human psyche.
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The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover - but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Worth a Credit
- De Texastanya en 08-27-16
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Some Women
- De: Emily Liebert
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Annabel Ford has everything under control, devoting her time to her twin boys and keeping her household running smoothly. But when her husband of a decade announces that he's leaving, she's blindsided. And suddenly her world begins to unravel. Piper Whitley has always done her best to balance it all - raising her daughter, Fern, by herself while advancing her career as a crime reporter. Only now that she's finally met the man of her dreams, Fern's absentee father shows up, throwing everything into a tailspin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!!
- De femmefatale en 01-12-23
De: Emily Liebert
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After I'm Gone
- A Novel
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Linda Emond
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 845
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 734
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 739
Dead is dead. Missing is gone. When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Day dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative - if not all legal - businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July in 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, facing prison, vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband - or his money - might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress, Julie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cannot rate this highly enough!
- De C. Vincent en 03-05-14
De: Laura Lippman
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All You Could Ask For
- A Novel
- De: Mike Greenberg
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
Happily married Brooke discovers her loving husband has led a separate life with…another wife. Newlywed Samantha learns of her husband's cheating heart when she finds the goods on his computer. High-powered career woman Katherine works with heartbreaker Phillip, the man who hurt her early on in her career. Brooke, Samantha, and Katherine don't know one another, but their stories are about to intertwine in ways no one could have imagined. And all three are about to discover the power of friendship to conquer adversity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Annoyed by Hidden Theme
- De parsnip en 08-12-13
De: Mike Greenberg
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An Available Man
- A Novel
- De: Hilma Wolitzer
- Narrado por: Fred Sullivan
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
When Edward Schuyler - a modest and bookish 62-year-old science teacher - is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. The problem is that Edward doesn’t feel available. He’s still mourning his beloved wife, Bee, and prefers solitude and the familiar routine of work, gardening, and bird-watching.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely book, easy read, wonderful characters
- De Molly-o en 02-17-12
De: Hilma Wolitzer
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The Unwelcomed Child
- De: V. C. Andrews
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Cottle
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 898
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 784
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 784
Elle Edwards, who has been told she's a product of her mother's sinful mistake, has never gone to school, never met a teenager her own age, never even been allowed off of her grandparents' property. Convinced that their granddaughter is infected with evil, Myra and Prescott Edwards believe that only the harshest child-rearing methods will prevent Elle from becoming an instrument of the devil.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I wanted it to be better.
- De A. Smith en 11-25-19
De: V. C. Andrews
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The Unspeakable
- And Other Subjects of Discussion
- De: Meghan Daum
- Narrado por: Meghan Daum
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide", Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Complaining about her dead mom.
- De Erik Hermansen en 11-23-14
De: Meghan Daum
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The View from Penthouse B
- De: Elinor Lipman
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband when her sister, Margot, invites her to join forces as roommates in Margot's luxurious Village apartment. For Margot, divorced amid scandal, then made Ponzi-poor, it's a chance to shake Gwen out of her grief and help make ends meet. To further this effort she enlists a third boarder, the handsome Anthony. As the three swap money-making schemes and Gwen ventures back out into the dating world, the arrival of Margot's paroled ex in the apartment downstairs creates not just complications but the chance for all sorts of unexpected forgiveness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must-Listen Lipman Novel
- De L. Syre en 06-10-15
De: Elinor Lipman
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When It Happens to You
- A Novel in Stories
- De: Molly Ringwald
- Narrado por: Molly Ringwald
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time, but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. Molly Ringwald mines the complexities of modern relationships in this gripping and nuanced collection of interlinked stories. Writing with a deep compassion for human imperfection, Ringwald follows a Los Angeles family and their friends and neighbors while they negotiate the hazardous terrain of everyday life - revealing the deceptions, heartbreak, and vulnerability familiar to us all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrated by Molly!
- De JillHen en 03-01-13
De: Molly Ringwald
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Veil of Roses
- De: Laura Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Tamila Soroush wanted it all. But in the Islamic Republic of Iran, dreams are a dangerous thing for a girl. Tami abandons them…until her twenty-seventh birthday, when her parents give her a one-way ticket to America, hoping she will “go and wake up her luck.” If they have their way, Tami will never return to Iran…which means she has three months to find a husband in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rooting for freedom
- De Newman en 07-10-13
De: Laura Fitzgerald
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One Amazing Thing
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Purva Bedi, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 101
Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An ok way to kill some time
- De R.Reader en 11-07-12
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Magnolia Wednesdays
- De: Wendy Wax
- Narrado por: Käthe Mazur
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
At 41, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative journalist is crumbling. Humiliated after taking a bullet in her backside during an exposé, Vivi learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very hormonal. This explains why she says "yes" to a dreadful job covering suburban living back home in Georgia, a column she must write incognito. Down South, it's her sister's ballroom dance studio that becomes her undercover spot where she learns about the local life - and where unexpected friendships develop.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Painful. And not in a good way.
- De Kate en 01-24-13
De: Wendy Wax
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She Regrets Nothing
- A Novel
- De: Andrea Dunlop
- Narrado por: Rachel Dulude
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 116
When Laila Lawrence becomes an orphan at 23, the sudden loss unexpectedly introduces her to three glamorous cousins from New York who show up unannounced at her mother's funeral. The three siblings are scions of the wealthy family from which Laila's father had been estranged long before his own untimely demise 10 years before. Two years later, Laila has left behind her quiet life in Grosse Point, Michigan to move to New York City, landing her smack in the middle of her cousins' decadent world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Listen
- De Vallena en 02-19-18
De: Andrea Dunlop
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The Finishing School
- A Novel
- De: Joanna Goodman
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 184
One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain. Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies as allies in her tenure at the school.
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3 out of 5 stars
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this book was just ok
- De Josh Fields en 02-26-20
De: Joanna Goodman
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Saints for All Occasions
- A Novel
- De: J. Courtney Sullivan
- Narrado por: Susan Denaker
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 738
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 647
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 650
Nora and Theresa Flynn are 21 and 17 when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan - a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narration ruined it
- De Janis Reynolds en 06-12-17
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Bitter in the Mouth
- De: Monique Truong
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
Growing up in the small town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the 70’s and 80’s, Linda believes that she is profoundly different from everyone else, including the members of her own family. “What I know about you, little girl, would break you in two” are the cruel, mysterious last words that Linda’s grandmother ever says to her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"Tasting Words" made this hard to hear!
- De Kate Anderson en 11-06-11
De: Monique Truong
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Forbidden Sister
- Forbidden, Book 1
- De: V. C. Andrews
- Narrado por: Amy Rubinate
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Emmie Wilcox was only six when her sister, Roxy, was thrown out of their New York City apartment. Their stern father's military style left no room for rebellion, and Roxy was continually defiant and rebellious. Emmie is obedient, respectful. Two sisters, total opposites - yet Emmie is secretly obsessed with the mystery and imposed silence surrounding Roxy. She wants excitement, and being a good girl all the time is harder than it seems. Finally, Emmie goes behind her father's back to track down and spy on the sister she can't help but be fascinated with.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love VC Andrews series !
- De Grace R. en 02-05-18
De: V. C. Andrews
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How to Be an American Housewife
- A Novel
- De: Margaret Dilloway
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington, Emily Durante
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 197
How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters and the pull of tradition. It tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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big disappointment
- De Kirsten en 04-12-12
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Plant Your Feet Firmly
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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point of view
What made the experience of listening to Plant Your Feet Firmly the most enjoyable?
i enjoyed how the author could shift her point of view. she told her stories from different viewpoints that were not necessarily her own.
What did you like best about this story?
i loved how she left her ego , and could see out of the eyes and ego's of her characters. how easy it is to see and describe our own thoughts and feelings but she was able to live and breathe through unusual characters.
Have you listened to any of Lori J. Moran’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
no
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
no it took me several days.
Any additional comments?
hope she writes more. very nice
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