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The Floating Girls: A Novel Audiobook
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A wonderfully atmospheric coming-of-age family drama told from the perspective of a young girl as she unravels the secrets that threaten her entire family
The backwaters of Georgia hold many buried secrets. But they won’t stay buried forever.
One hot, sticky summer in Bledsoe, Georgia, twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker stumbles across a stilt house in a neighboring marsh and upon Andy Webber, a boy about her age. He and his father have recently moved back to Georgia from California, and rumors of the suspicious drowning death of Andy’s mother years earlier have chased them there and back.
Kay is fascinated and enamored with Andy, and she doesn’t listen when her father tells her to stay away from the Webbers. But when Kay’s sister goes missing, the mystery of Mrs. Webber’s death—and Kay’s parents’ potential role in it—comes to light. Kay and her brothers must navigate the layers of secrets that emerge in the course of the investigation as their family, and the world as they knew it, unravels around them.
At once wickedly funny and heartbreaking, The Floating Girls is an immersive coming-of-age story narrated by a feisty, smart, yet undeniably vulnerable girl reminiscent of a modern-day Scout Finch—a character who will live in listeners’ hearts for a long time to come.
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“To read The Floating Girls is to feel a small-town slowness seep into your bones. The book’s narrator, Kay Whitaker, is a stubborn young girl you’ll never forget. A cracking story that unfolds in gorgeous prose in the stultifying heat of the American South.”
— Hayley Scrivenor, author of Dirt Creek
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“A compelling mystery…Kay is the smartest, funniest, most curious young narrator I have come across in some time. Her voice stuck with me long after I finished reading.”
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“The Floating Girls is a powerhouse of a Southern novel…This lush and mesmerizing debut has a beating heart of its own. Lo Patrick is a standout new Southern voice.”
— Andrea Bobotis, author of The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt -
“The Floating Girls is a powerhouse of a Southern novel…This lush and mesmerizing debut has a beating heart of its own.”
— Andrea Bobotis, author of The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt -
“Fans of Where the Crawdads Sing will love this immersive mystery set against the salty air of Georgia’s marshes. In Patrick’s atmospheric prose, the water and its characters come to life.”
— Lindsey Rogers Cook, author of Learning to Speak Southern -
“In Patrick’s atmospheric prose, the water and its characters come to life.”
— Lindsey Rogers Cook, author of Learning to Speak Southern -
“A cracking story that unfolds in gorgeous prose in the stultifying heat of the American South.”
— Hayley Scrivenor, author of Dirt Creek
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About Taylor Meskimen
Taylor Meskimen is an actress and a narrator. Her audiobook readings include several L. Ron Hubbard novels, such as Gun Boss of Tumbleweed and Death Waits at Sundown.