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Baby in a Box
- Author
- Sarah Braunstein
- Narrator
- Sarah Welborn, Matt Godfrey
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 9 June 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Prescient and idiosyncratic stories about the cost and joys of caretaking from a "sharp-witted, ravishing" (New York Times) writer.
These stunning stories, steeped in dark humor, startle and dismay, and introduce us to a cast of eccentric and wholly believable characters. Unexpected encounters confine and define the lives of strangers, while parents and partners navigate blended families and modern love: An older woman tells her waitress that she once left a newborn on church steps. A motel housekeeper makes a radical proposal to a guest. A teenager grapples with atheism and grief and eBay. A mother's world is disrupted and recharged after a neighborhood man gives her young daughter a telescope. Strange, heartfelt, sly, and wryly funny, Sarah Braunstein's stories ask us to confront the ways we try to make sense of our lives―and what happens when we escape from these preconceptions.
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Details
- Author
- Sarah Braunstein
- Narrator
- Sarah Welborn, Matt Godfrey
- Duration
- 6 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 June 2026
- ISBN
- 9781696614221
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Short stories
Synopsis
Prescient and idiosyncratic stories about the cost and joys of caretaking from a "sharp-witted, ravishing" (New York Times) writer.These stunning stories, steeped in dark humor, startle and dismay, and introduce us to a cast of eccentric and wholly believable characters. Unexpected encounters confine and define the lives of strangers, while parents and partners navigate blended families and modern love: An older woman tells her waitress that she once left a newborn on church steps. A motel housekeeper makes a radical proposal to a guest. A teenager grapples with atheism and grief and eBay. A mother's world is disrupted and recharged after a neighborhood man gives her young daughter a telescope. Strange, heartfelt, sly, and wryly funny, Sarah Braunstein's stories ask us to confront the ways we try to make sense of our lives―and what happens when we escape from these preconceptions.
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