When We Were Them Audiobook, by Laura Taylor Namey Play Audiobook Sample

When We Were Them Audiobook

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Read By: Gail Shalan Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781797134376

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

51

Longest Chapter Length:

25:16 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

09 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

12:19 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

6

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Publisher Description

From New York Times bestselling author Laura Taylor Namey comes an exquisitely crafted, heartrending novel about friendship and the bittersweetness of growing up and growing apart.

When they were fifteen, Willa, Luz, and Britton’s friendship was everything.

When they were sixteen, they stood by each other no matter what.

When they were seventeen, they went through the worst.

And when they were eighteen, Willa ruined it all.

Now, it’s the week of graduation, and Willa is left with only a memory box filled with symbols of the friendship she destroyed: A book of pranks. Corsages from a nightmarish homecoming. A greasy pizza menu. Greeting cards with words that mean the world… It’s enough to make Willa wonder how anything could tear her, Luz, and Britton apart. But as Willa revisits the moments when she and her friends leaned on each other, she can’t avoid the moments they leaned so hard their friendship began to crack.

As Willa tries to find a way back to Luz and Britton, she must confront the why of her betrayal, and answer a question she never saw coming: Who is she without them?

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“With an urgency that takes listeners into her confidence, narrator Gail Shalan captures the anguish of Willa as she recounts the events leading to a break in her once tight friendship with Luz and Britton…Shalan deftly shifts between characters…Shalan’s authentic narration takes listeners on an intimate journey with Willa as she grows to the edge of adulthood.”

— AudioFile 

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  • “A bittersweet story that will touch many hearts, especially as readers remember that time when their friends were everything.”

    — Booklist
  • “Female relationships take center stage in Namey’s narrative about growing up, growing together, and, sometimes, growing apart.”

    — Publishers Weekly

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About Laura Taylor Namey

Laura Taylor Namey is the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon’s YA Book Club pick A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, as well as The Library of Lost Things and When We Were Them. A proud Cuban American, she can be found hunting for vintage treasures and wishing she was in London or Paris.

About Gail Shalan

Neil Hellegers grew up in New Jersey and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a BA in theater arts and a minor in psychology before getting an MFA in acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to New York City in 2003 and, since then, has made a career of theatrical performance, percussion, theater education, and audiobook narration. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.