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Up from the Blue: A Novel Audiobook
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“Elegant and engrossing….Henderson is a talent to watch.”
—Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology
“This is not a book you’ll soon forget.”
—Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants
The gripping debut novel from Litpark.com founder and Pushcart Prize-nominee Susan Henderson, Up From the Blue is a dazzling tour de force that unfolds against the backdrop of 1970s America—a tumultuous era of desegregation, school busing, and the early rise of modern-day feminism. The story of an imaginative young girl struggling to make sense of her mother’s mysterious disappearance, Up From the Blue is enthralling fiction that delves into complex family relationships, in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Katrina Kittle, and Laura Kasischke.
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“[An] elegant debut…Henderson’s fascinating novel fearlessly examines the complexities of depression, romantic and filial love, and motherhood. Beautiful, funny, sad, and complicated, Tillie’s quest to understand her complex, troubled family is filled with lush descriptions of painfully emotional moments.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“A haunting tale of the terrible ways in which we fail each other; of the whys, the what ifs, and the what nows. This is not a book you’ll soon forget.”
— Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants -
“A remarkable debut, not just for the uncanny accuracy and charm of eight-year-old Tillie’s narrative voice, but for the way the characters reveal unexpected angles of themselves that somehow make them realer than real. Up from the Blue lingers in the mind.”
— Mark Childress, New York Times bestselling author -
“Henderson shows remarkable compassion in her debut novel, an affecting portait of depression through a child’s eyes.”
— Booklist
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About Susan Henderson
Susan Henderson is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She is the founder of the literary blog LitPark: Where Writers Come to Play, while also contributing to the blog The Nervous Breakdown and volunteering for the We Are Family Foundation. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Pittsburgh Quarterly, North Atlantic Review, Opium, and many other publications. The rights for the translation of her novel were sold in five countries and it earned much acclaim from sources such as NPR and Rosie O’Donnell. Henderson lives in New York with her husband and two sons.
About Emily Durante
Emily Durante has been narrating audiobooks for over ten years and is also an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning audiobook director. She has been acting since the age of seven and has performed in a number of stage productions at the professional, collegiate, and regional levels.