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The Shape of My Eyes: A Memoir of Race, Faith, and Finding Myself Audiobook, by Dave Gibbons Play Audiobook Sample

The Shape of My Eyes: A Memoir of Race, Faith, and Finding Myself Audiobook

The Shape of My Eyes: A Memoir of Race, Faith, and Finding Myself Audiobook, by Dave Gibbons Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Dave Gibbons Publisher: Worthy Books Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781668641675

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

31

Longest Chapter Length:

30:40 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

16:10 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

A touching, humorous account of the author’s cultural reckoning with his Korean heritage and hidden family secrets.

 

A surprising diagnosis of PTSD led Dave Gibbons to look to his past for clues to explain the unexpected result.

 

Born to an American soldier and a Korean mother in the wake of the Korean War, Dave has spent his life struggling  to blend his Korean roots and his very American upbringing. The family joins a conservative church that embraces a strict, rule-based faith, and they try to navigate life as one of the few mixed-raced families in their community. But when tragedy strikes, tearing the family apart, Dave is forced to face long- buried secrets that he can no longer ignore.

 

As he explores his family’s difficult past, he confronts his own pain and the persistent feelings of not quite fitting in either in America or his mother’s home country. And when a DNA test ultimately reveals a truth that shatters everything he understood about his history, he begins the journey to reconcile his American upbringing with his deep Korean roots, and he is forced to confront the traumas he unknowingly carried.

 

The Shape of My Eyes beautifully weaves historic reference points of the oppression and discrimination against Asian Americans with Dave’s own personal story. Dave’s wrestling with belonging in his family, in America, and in the church creates a raw, thought-provoking memoir about race, religion and finding home.

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