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A razor-sharp story collection from a writer who is always "furiously good" (Zadie Smith, bestselling author of Swing Time). With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy America in her new collection - exploring our attachments to each other through characters who aren't quite who they hoped to become, though there is no one else they can be. In "A Prize for Every Player," a man is nominated to run for president by the customers of a big box store, while he and his family do their weekly shopping. At a conference on genocide(s) in the title story, old friends rediscover themselves and one another - finding spiritual and physical comfort in ancient traditions. And in "Hello Everybody" and "She Got Away," Homes revisits a Los Angeles family obsessed with the surfaces and frightened of what lives below. In the nearly three decades since her seminal debut collection The Safety of Objects, Homes has been celebrated by readers and critics alike as one of our boldest and most original writers, acclaimed for her psychological accuracy and "satire so close to the truth it's terrifying" (Ali Smith). Her first book since the Women's Prize-winning May We Be Forgiven, Days of Awe is a major new addition to her body of visionary, fearless, outrageously funny work. Audiobook Table of Contents: Brother On Sunday, read by Mark Bramhall Whose Story Is It and Why Is It Always On Her Mind?, read by Kimberly Farr Days of Awe, read by Rebecca Lowman Hello Everybody, read by Devon Sorvari All Is Good Except for the Rain, read by Cassandra Campbell The National Caged Bird Show, read by Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Will Damron, Kimberly Farr, Rebecca Lowman, Fred Sanders, and Devon Sorvari Your Mother Was a Fish, read by Cassandra Campbell The Last Good Time, read by Will Damron Be Mine, read by Rebecca Lowman A Prize for Every Player, read by Will Damron Omega Point, read by Kimberly Farr She Got Away, read by Devon Sorvari Cover Photograph: “White Sands National Monument” © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
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About A. M. Homes
A. M. Homes is the author of the memoir The
Mistress’s Daughter and the novels This Book Will Save Your
Life, Music for Torching, The
End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story
collections The Safety of Objects and Things You
Should Know. She lives in New York City.
About the Narrators
Erin Bennett is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress who played Carlie Roberts in the BBC radio drama Torchwood: Submission. She can be heard on several video games. Regional theater appearances include the Intiman, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, and the Getty Villa. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Laurie Keller is the acclaimed author-illustrator of Do Unto Otters; Arnie, the Doughnut; and The Scrambled States of America, among numerous others. She grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, and always loved to draw, paint, and write stories. She earned a BFA at Kendall College of Art and Design, then worked at Hallmark as a greeting card illustrator for over seven years, until one night she got an idea for a children’s book. She quit her job, moved to New York City, and had soon published her first book. She loved living in New York, but she has now returned to her home state, where she lives in a little cottage in the woods on the shore of Lake Michigan.