The Story of a Million Years Audiobook

Quotes

• “A stunning first novel…Impossible to put down.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Already an accomplished writer of short fiction, Huddle applies his story-writing skills to this shimmering debut novel…The shifting viewpoints can make for a fractured, glancing narrative, but the multiple voices also create surprising dimension and texture in a slender novel. Like a shattered mirror pieced painstakingly together, every shard captures a different angle…His view of the human condition brims with wisdom, compassion and a rare grace.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “The story of some twenty years, told through seven discrete voices about lives intertwined, often intimately…The shared experiences and the different ‘selves’ that the varied voices bring to them build to a rare, complex reality, and the faceting and near-perfect prose give this reality a lustrous sheen. Highly recommended for quality fiction collections.”

  — Library Journal

• “Huddle is such an accomplished short-story writer and poet, the triumph of his first novel comes as no surprise. Supple and incisive, it’s a composition for seven voices in which friends, lovers, and spouses candidly and tolerantly consider both their own failings and the disappointing but ultimately forgivable foibles of their loved ones.”

  — Booklist

• “A kind of suburban Midwestern, domestic Rashomon whose finest sequences offer disturbingly candid revelations of how even the most intimate and trusting relationships are fraught with misunderstanding and secrecy…[Huddle gives] his characters vividly distinctive personalities—and the rueful honesty to see themselves as the flawed people they have somehow become.”

  — Kirkus Reviews