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Vanished
- Author
- Karin Lin-Greenberg
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 September 2022
- Run Time
- 7 hours 2 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them.
The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers into her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past.
Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life; each deals with something or someone who has vanished—a person close to her, a friendship, a relationship—as she seeks to make sense of the world around her in the wake of that loss.
Critics Review
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“In Lin-Greenberg’s superb collection, dramatic scenes play out between students and teachers…Flawless and insightful prose gives an acute sense of the characters’ perspectives as they change.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Vanished is peopled with characters who are bitter and funny and who do questionable things—and who are, as a result, imminently human, unquestioningly alive on the page. An engrossing and extraordinary book.”
Nick White, author of Sweet and Low
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“The human struggle for connection guides us through each story’s surprising world of art, pop culture, school, difficult relationships, and weird animals. I fell in love with these edgy, lost characters…Vanished is a celebration of our flawed humanity.”
Erika Krouse, author of Tell Me Everything
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Details
- Author
- Karin Lin-Greenberg
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 7 hours 2 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212277044
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Short stories
Synopsis
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them.The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers into her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past.Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life; each deals with something or someone who has vanished—a person close to her, a friendship, a relationship—as she seeks to make sense of the world around her in the wake of that loss.
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