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Not Our Kind: A Novel Audiobook, by Kitty Zeldis Play Audiobook Sample

Not Our Kind: A Novel Audiobook

Not Our Kind: A Novel Audiobook, by Kitty Zeldis Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Tavia Gilbert Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062864819

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

32

Longest Chapter Length:

39:06 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

11 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

19:12 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

Other Audiobooks Written by Kitty Zeldis: > View All...

Publisher Description

“[An] enthralling portrait of a woman daring to defy convention in the face of rigid social confines…filled with thought-provoking turns that explore timely subjects in a gripping light...its themes linger long after the final page is read.”—USA Today

With echoes of Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women—one Jewish, one a WASP—and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting.

One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia’s difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor.

Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys’ rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant bond with Margaux. Soon the idealistic young woman is filling the bright young girl’s mind with Shakespeare and Latin. Though her mother, a hat maker with a little shop on Second Avenue, disapproves, Eleanor takes pride in her work, even if she must use the name ""Moss"" to enter the Bellamys’ restricted doorman building each morning, and feels that Patricia’s husband, Wynn, may have a problem with her being Jewish.

Invited to keep Margaux company at the Bellamys’ country home in a small town in Connecticut, Eleanor meets Patricia’s unreliable, bohemian brother, Tom, recently returned from Europe. The spark between Eleanor and Tom is instant and intense. Flushed with new romance and increasingly attached to her young pupil, Eleanor begins to feel more comfortable with Patricia and much of the world she inhabits. As the summer wears on, the two women’s friendship grows—until one hot summer evening, a line is crossed, and both Eleanor and Patricia will have to make important decisions—choices that will reverberate through their lives.

Gripping and vividly told, Not Our Kind illuminates the lives of two women on the cusp of change—and asks how much our pasts can and should define our futures.

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“Kitty Zeldis is one of those rare writers who doesn’t just weave a story; she creates a world. In this case, it is 1947 New York—vivid, dazzling, challenging—where a young Jewish woman dares to cross the line into the land of WASP privilege, with unexpected results.”

— Jennie Fields, author of Lilly Beach

Quotes

  • “Compelling, frank, and all too real, Not Our Kind kept me reading long into the night.”

    — Lauren Belfer, New York Times bestselling author
  • “Glorious period details…but the most remarkable achievement of Not Our Kind is the complex relationship between women from two different worlds that Kitty Zeldis expertly explores.”

    — Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author
  • “Can the fox and the hound ever truly be friends? This engaging novel succeeds in putting a fresh, feminine spin on that question.”

    — Suzanne Rindell, author of The Other Typist

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About Kitty Zeldis

Kitty Zeldis is the pseudonym for an author of books for both adults and children. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

About Tavia Gilbert

Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.