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The Roxy Letters: A Novel Audiobook
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Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Where’d You Go, Bernadette in this comic novel about twenty-something Roxy, an unlucky-in-love Whole Foods employee, aspiring artist, and sometimes vegan, who teams up with her two best friends to save Austin from gentrification—and to save her personal life—in whatever way she can.
The Roxy Letters is a hilarious and heartwarming novel told through the letters that the charming and hapless Roxy, a twenty-eight-year-old Austin native, sends to her ex-boyfriend (and current roommate) Everett.
Roxy is underemployed, sexually frustrated, and uninspired. Tired of her job as a deli maid at the original Whole Foods, Roxy daydreams of breaking out of her funk and finding a job that will get her creative juices flowing. She also wouldn’t mind finding love and finding herself off the brink of financial ruin—though Everett’s late rent payments aren’t helping her with the latter.
On top of it all, gentrification is slowly changing her beloved Austin in new and evilly corporate ways. When a new Lululemon pops up at the intersection of 6th and Lamar where the old Waterloo Video used to be, Roxy can stay silent no longer.
Encouraged by her ex-deli counter comrade Annie—now assistant to the Whole Foods CEO and planning an animal rights revolution from the inside—and her new friend Artemis, a vivacious and mercurial man-eater with a string of personas and paramours all over town, Roxy decides to take action. But can this spunky, unforgettable millennial keep Austin weird, avoid arrest, and discover good sex, true love, and her purpose in life in the process?
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“Jayme Mattler’s throaty, laid-back presentation is the perfect foil for this quirky audiobook…Veering from the absurd to the sublime, from the hilarious to the poignant, this audiobook is a pleasure to hear. Mattler keeps to a steady cadence that makes the listener experience the story in a personal way.”
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“At a time when epistolary novels seem almost quaint, Roxy’s letters reinvigorate the form. Urgent and witty.”
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“She fills The Roxy Letters with as much heart as fun, and as a result, the reader comes away from this novel feeling that this city [Austin] that’s so special to so many is as cool as it’s ever been.”
— Austin Chronicle -
“Like a tarot reading in the mental hospital, Lowry’s novel bursts with quirky spirit and gleeful comic energy.”
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“Bawdy, frank and laugh-out-loud funny, The Roxy Letters brings to antic life all the hilarity and peppy horrors of being rootless and questing in your twenties.”
— Julia Claiborne Johnson, author of Be Frank With Me -
“Tom Robbins meets Bridget Jones’ Diary, eccentric, fun, delicious, for the thinking woman who loves her vagina.”
— Rufi Thorpe, author of Dear Fang, with Love -
“The enormously talented Mary Pauline Lowry has given us a wonderful and compelling contradiction, a novel at once wicked and extravagant, and vulnerable and pure. For comedy, for sheer joyous energy and deadly charm, you cannot do better than The Roxy Letters.”
— Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
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About Mary Pauline Lowry
Mary Pauline Lowry, a native of Austin, Texas, is the author of the novels The Roxy Letters and Wildfire. She is a regular contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Times, The Millions, and other publications. She received her MFA degree from Boise State University.