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The Gypsy Moth Summer: A Novel Audiobook, by Julia Fierro Play Audiobook Sample

The Gypsy Moth Summer: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Christa Lewis Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781541483071

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

54

Longest Chapter Length:

45:57 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

57 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

14:02 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island-dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag. The caterpillars become a relentless topic of island conversation and the inescapable soundtrack of the season. It is also the summer Leslie Day Marshall-only daughter of Avalon’s most prominent family-returns with her husband, a botanist, and their children to live in “The Castle,” the island’s grandest estate. Leslie’s husband Jules is African-American, and their children biracial, and islanders from both sides of the tracks form fast and dangerous opinions about the new arrivals. Maddie Pencott LaRosa straddles those tracks: a teen queen with roots in the tony precincts of East Avalon and the crowded working class corner of West Avalon, home to Grudder Aviation factory, the island’s bread-and-butter. Maddie falls in love with Brooks, Leslie’s and Jules’s son, and that love feels as urgent to Maddie as the questions about the new and deadly cancers showing up across the island. Could Grudder Aviation, the pride of the island-and its patriarch, the Colonel-be to blame?

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"The novel's late depictions of Maddie's anxious relationship with her family hit hard, giving the narrative a savage momentum."

— New York Times

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About Julia Fierro

Julia Fierro’s work has been published in Guernica, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, and other publications. In 2002, she founded the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, and she is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a teaching-writing fellow. Julia lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. 

About Christa Lewis

Christa Lewis has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. She is a classically trained actress with a four-year conservatory training in voice and acting. She has a smart and funny vibe, but can also meet the moment in straightforward or somber works of nonfiction thanks to a seventeen-year stint as a newsreader. Christa speaks accent-free German fluently and offers a variety of believable accents and dialects. Her narrations are well received—there have been seven Earphones awards across a variety of genres—YA, literary fiction, biography and memoir—a 2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award in Biography and two Audie nominations. Pippa Jayne was the Sultry Listeners’ Award Winner 2019 in the Erotica category.