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Manywhere: Stories Audiobook
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Lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geographical borders and gender binaries
The nine stories in Morgan Thomas’s shimmering debut collection, Manywhere, witness Southern queer and genderqueer characters determined to find themselves reflected in the annals of history, at whatever cost. As each character traces deceit and violence through Southern tall tales and their own pasts, their journeys reveal the porous boundaries of body, land, and history, and the sometimes ruthless awakenings of self-discovery.
A trans woman finds her independence through the purchase of a pregnancy bump. A young Virginian flees their relationship, choosing instead to immerse themselves in the life of an intersex person from Colonial-era Jamestown. A young writer tries to evade the murky and violent legacy of an ancestor who supposedly disappeared into a midwifery bag. And in the uncanny title story, a young trans person brings home a replacement daughter for their elderly father.
Winding between reinvention and remembrance, transition and transcendence, these origin stories rebound across centuries. With warm, meticulous emotional intelligence, Thomas uncovers how the stories we borrow to understand ourselves in turn shape the people we become. Ushering in a new form of queer mythmaking, Manywhere introduces a storyteller of uncommon range and talent.
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“This powerful collection of nine short stories about Southern queer and genderqueer characters engages listeners through emotionally attuned performances…A quietly compelling production.”
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“Breathlessly imaginative stories.”
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“Each story touches on the mundane struggles people face, exploring what it’s like to be an outsider.”
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“Entrancing prose examining gender, history, obsession, race, bodies, and all the mysteries within these words.”
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“Sblimely commits four centuries of the genderqueer/trans existence to the page.”
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“The characters in these stories feel fully alive; they reveal their rich and endlessly vibrant interiors through indefatigable exploration and textured thoughts.”
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“Each story here is a gem, glimmering and precious to behold, but gathered together, Manywhere is a profusion of diamonds.”
— Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author -
“These stories powerfully honor the lives of people attempting to…live according to their own essential rhythms, to the longings of their true, authentic selves.”
— Karen Thompson Walker, New York Times bestselling author
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An Electric Literature of Most Anticipated Books of 2022
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A Nylon Magazine Pick of 2022's Most Anticipated Books
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A Lambda Literary Pick of Upcoming Books
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A Millions.com Pick of Most Anticipated Books
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An Autostraddle Pick of Forthcoming Books
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About Morgan Thomas
Morgan Thomas’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review Online, VICE, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, The Greensboro Review, them., and StoryQuarterly, where their story won the 2019 Fiction Prize. They are the recipient of a Bread Loaf Work-Study Grant, a Fullbright Grant, and the Penny Wilkes Scholarship in Writing and the Environment, and they have received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Arctic Circle. A graduate of the University of Oregon MFA program, they live in Portland.
About the Narrators
Emily Lawrence, an actor and writer, is passionate about bringing stories to life. Her greatest strength as a performer is her ability to bring herself to the role, creating a wide range of emotionally resonant performances that leap off the page, stage, or screen. Her favorite characters are complicated, conflicted, and still searching for their inner truths. She has narrated more than 425 audiobooks, many of which were USA Today or New York Times bestsellers, and has also worked in film, television, and theater. Born and raised in New York, she moved to Los Angeles shortly after receiving her BFA in drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She also lived in London while studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her greatest loves are acting and reading, so narrating audiobooks is a dream come true. Her other passions include traveling, LARPing, aerial circus, and chocolate.
Natalie Naudus is one of the most beloved audiobook narrators working today and now author of her debut novel, Gay the Pray Away.
Born in the United States and based in France, Hope Newhouse comes from a stage background ranging from medieval farce to contemporary drama to children’s theater. Now more often found behind a microphone, her warm and engaging voice has been heard on commercials, video games, e-learning programs, institutional films, and audiobooks.