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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?: A Novel Audiobook
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In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America, we share a grown woman’s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth.
The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small-town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger—until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help—and then everything changes.
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“Lorrie Moore distills, in less than two hundred pages, the vacillating pleasures and pains of the sisterly love between girls as well as the way such a formative friendship reverberates through the years—even after that relationship has long since ended.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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“Touches and dazzles and entertains. An enchanting novel.”
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“Exquisite…Exhilarting…Balanced adroitly on the fine line between laughter and tears.”
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“The extraordinarily talented Lorrie Moore presents the lives of Sils and Berie and the atmosphere of the upstate town they live in with a subtle, moving, and often outright brilliance.”
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“This novel is like a hand-painted Russian Easter egg, a Chinese sleeve piece done in blind stitch; painstaking, breathtaking beauty in miniature. [Moore] creates a gorgeous, terrifying picture.”
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“This is more than a girls’ coming-of-age story…Ms. Moore was always able to make readers laugh out loud. This is the first of her works that can bring them to tears as well.”
— New York Times Book Review
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An O Magazine Pick of 25 Books Every Woman Should Read in Her Lifetime
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A New York Times Pick of Best Books You Can Read in a Day
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About Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore is the author of five novels and several short-story collections. Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
About Gabrielle de Cuir
Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.