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How Strange a Season: Fiction Audiobook
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An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life’s challenges and beauty
A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with endangered flowers to establish a small world that only she can control in an attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths.
In these haunting stories, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston.
Bergman’s provocative prose asks the questions: what are we leaving behind for our descendants to hold, and what price will they pay for our mistakes?
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“Bergman writes with preternatural wisdom, delivering urgent stories of radical independence and toughness in a world on fire…These stories are ornery and fierce—ready for battle, their teeth filed to points.”
— Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers
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“Heartfelt, rich in character and detail, the stories in How Strange a Season feel both modern and timeless.”
— Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author -
“A gorgeous collection featuring strong women…And that a storied Southern home could be cursed instead of blessed—this kind of overturned belief abounds in these beautifully written stories.”
— Amy Hempel, author of Sing to It
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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About Megan Mayhew Bergman
Megan Mayhew Bergman grew up in North Carolina and attended Wake Forest University. She has graduate degrees from Duke University and Bennington College. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, Oxford American, One Story, and Narrative. She lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont, with her husband, two daughters, and several animals.
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.