White Tears
“Delivered by three talented narrators…Hoppe, Campbell, and Hoffman perform this engrossing, convoluted tale with all its serious implications intact. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick for March 2017
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
A New York Times Pick of New Paperbacks to Check Out This Week
A Washington Post Best Books of the Year selection
A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017
A GQ Pick of Best Books of 2017
A London Economist Best Book of the Year
Among shortlisted titles for James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 2018
Among shortlisted titles for PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Rathbones Folio Prize, 2018
"An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books
Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it's a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real, the two young white men, accompanied by Carter's troubled sister Leonie, spiral down into the heart of the nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge, and exploitation.
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