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Bound: A Novel Audiobook
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Antonya Nelson is known for her razor-sharp depictions of contemporary family life in all of its sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious complexity. Her latest novel has roots in her own youth in Wichita, in the neighborhood stalked by the serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, and Kill). A story of wayward love and lost memory, of public and private lives twisting out of control, Bound is Nelson's most accomplished and emotionally riveting work.
Catherine and Oliver, young wife and older entrepreneurial husband, are negotiating their difference in age and a plethora of well-concealed secrets. Oliver, now in his sixties, is a serial adulterer and has just fallen giddily in love yet again. Catherine, seemingly placid and content, has ghosts of a past she scarcely remembers. When Catherine's long-forgotten high school friend dies and leaves Catherine the guardian of her teenage daughter, that past comes rushing back. As Oliver manages his new love, and Catherine her new charge and darker past, local news reports turn up the volume on a serial killer who has reappeared after years of quiet.
In a time of haunting and new revelations, Nelson's characters grapple with their public and private obligations, continually choosing between the suppression or indulgence of wild desires. Which way they turn, and what balance they find, may only be determined by those who love them most.
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"This was great. The serial murderer is an insignificant character, meant to parallel a major character who is a serial marrier.From the intelligebt dog that starts the book right on through the characters are likeable and easy to relate to. "
— Debbie (5 out of 5 stars)
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In this delightful blend of extraordinary circumstances and ordinary suburban life, Nelson beautifully and humorously exposes the deep connections among these characters.
— Library Journal Starred Review
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" Captures perfectly that best friend time and good girls with older loser bad boys. Don't get the point of the serial killer. Women academics do not come off well. "
— Sally, 5/15/2011 -
" This book felt rather pointless and the tie in with the BTK unnecessary. Nothing came together here. "
— Amanda, 5/2/2011 -
" I never really got to where I cared about the characters. There was not a ton of dialog and I think I am a dialog reader. It was an ok book but that is about all. "
— Lynnek, 4/1/2011 -
" The writing is excellent, but I am still searching for the heart of this novel. "
— Amanda, 3/19/2011 -
" Half-way read and abandoned - the recurring plot thread of a serial killer called "the BTK Killer" haunting Wichita made me impatient and cranky and I have too many other books to read to keep slogging. "
— Kyla, 3/7/2011 -
" I was a little disappointed in the book. It started out OK, but just didn't get there with me. I didn't see the connection with the BTK killer. It was a book we read in our on-campus book club. "
— Connie, 3/2/2011 -
" Clean, sharp writing. In depth connections, slow build. Really excellent book. "
— Michelle, 2/21/2011 -
" Parts were excellent, but others were lacking. "
— Natalie, 2/4/2011
About Antonya Nelson
Antonya Nelson is the author of nine books of fiction, including the short story collection Nothing Right and the novels Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies, such as Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. Nelson has received a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA grant, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the United States Artists Simon fellowship. She is married to the writer Robert Boswell and lives in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, where she holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
About Cassandra Campbell
Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration. She was been named a “Best Voice” by AudioFile magazine and in 2018 was inducted in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame.