Bingo’s Run: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “James A. Levine is a deeply gifted writer who reaches into the dirt, sweat, and diesel of modern-day Nairobi and introduces us to a young innocent whose adventures are unforgettable. Bingo’s runs between joy and death, laughter and sorrow, survival and redemption, will make you feel like cheering.”

  — James McBride, New York Times bestselling author

• “Bingo’s Run is one of those rare books that infuse a potentially difficult subject with intimacy, tenderness, and humor. Social commentary, gritty comedy, and pure cinematic adrenaline meet in an utterly compelling novel with a voice all its own.”

  — Tash Aw, O. Henry Prize–winning author

• “Levine sets much of his latest in Kibera’s back allies and slums, but he doesn’t dwell there. By telling the novel from the perspective of this charming teen grifter, Levine makes his story feel substantial while also quite fun, significant even as the pages turn themselves.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Bingo is a fascinating and inimitably likable character. Levine, a Mayo clinic professor of medicine and well-known child advocate, excels at telling his adventurous, comic, and realistically gritty story with humor but not with pathos, successfully addressing the harsh and sometimes tragic story of a child at risk.”

  — Library Journal

• “A delightful entertainment. And Bingo is a captivating protagonist…By its end readers will want to adopt him themselves.”

  — Booklist

• “A phenomenal street kid from the slums of Nairobi is the narrator of this second novel, a fable with realistic underpinnings…Levine has found just the right voice for Bingo, an upbeat survivor mired in corruption yet still capable of redemption…Bingo will win hearts.”

  — Kirkus Reviews