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Hard Girls Audiobook

By: J. Robert Lennon
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Read By: Amanda Troop Publisher: Mulholland Books Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781668635681
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Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

35

Longest Chapter Length:

47:45 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

33 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

20:44 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

In this razor-sharp crime novel from a "master of the dark arts" (Kelly Link), two estranged twin sisters hunt down their elusive mother—and face down the darkness they tried to escape.

Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating mother-in-law,) and a quiet-if-unfulfilling administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents’ secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life. When her estranged twin, Lila, makes contact, claiming to know where their mother is and why she left all those years ago, Jane agrees to join her, desperate for answers and the chance to reconnect with the only person who really knew her true self. Yet as the hunt becomes treacherous, and pulls the two women to the earth’s distant corners, they find themselves up against their mother’s subterfuge and the darkness that always stalked their family. Now Jane stands to lose the life she’s made for the one that has been impossible to escape.

Set in both the Pool family’s past and their present, and melding elements of a chase novel, an espionage thriller, and domestic suspense, Hard Girls is an utterly distinctive pastiche—propulsive, mysterious, cracked, intelligent, and unexpected at every turn.

 

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J. Robert Lennon’s Hard Girls is a mother-daughter thriller unlike any I’ve ever read. It’s a simple-enough premise—two sisters set off to track down their long-lost mother—but the narrative twists and turns are as distinctive and surprising as the relationships that propel them. Each and every character is exquisitely rendered here, and sisters Jane and Lila Pool are nothing less than utterly captivating: they are at once brilliant and vulnerable, tender and vicious. I fell head over heels in love with them both—and I know readers will too.

— Elizabeth Little, author of DEAR DAUGHTER and PRETTY AS A PICTURE 

Quotes

  • We build our world from the materials available, those given and allowed us. In Hard Girls, J. Robert Lennon has a brilliant, seemingly effortless way of sorting through the lumber, bent nails, staples, glue, and salvage that make up our lives.

    — James Sallis, author of DRIVE and SARAH JANE

  • Hard Girls is a rollicking read, an immersive, funny, consequential family story that is also a thriller.  Lennon is a master of plot and suspense, but he's also wonderful at creating indelible characters, particularly  the wild twins at the heart of this story. Hard Girls deftly evokes complex family dynamics: the tense innocence and precocity of adolescence as well as the poignant, hard reckoning of parenthood.

    — Dana Spiotta, author of WAYWARD

  • HARD GIRLS excels as a racing, twisty crime novel about the things we do to survive and how the people we love most surprise us, challenge us, and sometimes, if we're lucky, save us. Jane’s desire to be the mother her mother never was will pull at your heartstrings and the inventive plot will keep you glued to the page. Lennon reminds us there's no escaping the past until we look it square in the eye. A bold and adventurous novel.

    — Chelsea Bieker, author of GODSHOT and HEARTBROKE

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About J. Robert Lennon

J. Robert Lennon is the author of nine novels and three story collections, including Let Me Think, which was a finalist for the Story Prize. His fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Granta, Harper's Magazine, and the New Yorker.

About Amanda Troop

Amanda Troop is a Los Angeles–based actress with experience in film, television, and theater. She has also done extensive voice-over work for video games, films, and commercials.