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Milk Blood Heat: Stories Audiobook, by Dantiel W. Moniz Play Audiobook Sample

Milk Blood Heat: Stories Audiobook

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Read By: Machelle Williams Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781696603331

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

45:24 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06:01 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

30:08 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another.

A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter—whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family's church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their father's ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them.

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“Moniz pulls back the curtain on some of the more intimate complexities of the female experience and exposes it in all its messy splendor.”

— Atlanta Journa-Constitution

Quotes

  • “Entire stories seem bathed in a warm radiance…One can glow with both love and rage.”

    — New York Times
  • “Moniz uses the ‘swampy stench’ of Florida as a backdrop to explore the internal and external perfidies of womanhood.”

    — O, The Oprah Magazine
  • “The power in these stories rests in their veracity, vitality and vulnerability.”

    — Washington Post

Awards

  • Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
  • An Oprah Magazine Pick of Best Books of the Month
  • A Time Magazine Pick of the Month
  • An Entertainment Weekly Pick of Best Books of the Month

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About Dantiel W. Moniz

Dantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award by the Key West Literary Seminars, and a Tin House Scholarship. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, the Yale Review, Joyland, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere.