The Jealous Kind: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “This book, with its larger-than-life characters, is a grand adventure…its noirish reality tinged with a rosy glow, part of which comes from spilled blood.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “A big, broad, engagingly overstuffed new novel…Burke knows how to keep a story humming along…and then there’s Burke’s sense of place, which is so richly interwoven with his sense of history.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Wealth and privilege clash with poverty and ignorance as young Aaron Broussard finds first love, confronts his foes, and saves a friend.”

  — Sacramento Bee

• “Burke has a hit with this dark, atmospheric story of teenagers trying to make it through high school without getting killed by Mafia hit men, low-life thugs, and greasers with oily ducktails and switchblade knives.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Burke’s exquisite story about a teenager caught up in a 1950s class war, narrated by Will Patton, grabs listeners from the get-go. His portrayal of the novel’s young narrator, Aaron Holland Broussard, is fully believable… Patton’s compassion resonates as the boy struggles to prevent his best friend from self-destructing. From Burke’s dialogue, Patton extracts not only the Houston setting but also its distinctive social groups and their complex network of relationships…Overall, this is a stellar production, not to be missed.”

  — AudioFile