After the Eclipse
By
Sarah Perry
Read by
Emily Woo Zeller
Release:
09/26/2017
Release:
09/26/2017
Release:
09/26/2017
Release:
09/26/2017
Runtime:
13h 50m
Runtime:
13h 50m
Runtime:
13h 50m
Quantity:
“Emily Woo Zeller expertly narrates Sarah Perry’s memoir… Zeller builds real people with credible emotions…What could be better than a listening experience combining masterful writing, a riveting story, and a superb narration? Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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A Barnes & Noble Discover Award selection
When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine, just a few feet from Sarah's bedroom.
The killer escaped unseen; it would take the police twelve years to find him, time in which Sarah grew into adulthood, struggling with abandonment, police interrogations, and the effort of rebuilding her life when so much had been lost. Through it all she would dream of the eventual trial, a conviction—all her questions finally answered. But after the trial, Sarah's questions only grew. She wanted to understand her mother's life, not just her final hours, and so she began a personal investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, taking her deep into the abiding darkness of a small American town.
Told in searing prose, After the Eclipse is a luminous memoir of uncomfortable truth and terrible beauty, an exquisite memorial for a mother stolen from her daughter, and a blazingly successful attempt to cast light on her life once more.
The killer escaped unseen; it would take the police twelve years to find him, time in which Sarah grew into adulthood, struggling with abandonment, police interrogations, and the effort of rebuilding her life when so much had been lost. Through it all she would dream of the eventual trial, a conviction—all her questions finally answered. But after the trial, Sarah's questions only grew. She wanted to understand her mother's life, not just her final hours, and so she began a personal investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, taking her deep into the abiding darkness of a small American town.
Told in searing prose, After the Eclipse is a luminous memoir of uncomfortable truth and terrible beauty, an exquisite memorial for a mother stolen from her daughter, and a blazingly successful attempt to cast light on her life once more.
Release:
2017-09-26
2017-09-26
2017-09-26
2017-09-26
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
13h 50m
13h 50m
13h 50m
13h 50m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.98 lb
0.5 lb
0.98 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781681686745
9781665143806
9781665143790
9781681686738
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