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You Know When the Men Are Gone Audiobook, by Siobhan Fallon Play Audiobook Sample

You Know When the Men Are Gone Audiobook

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Read By: Cassandra Campbell Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2011 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781452670386

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

10

Longest Chapter Length:

55:44 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:20 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

35:07 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls. You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. No more boots stomping above, no more football games turned up too high, and, best of all, no more front doors slamming before dawn as they trudge out for their early formation, sneakers on metal stairs, cars starting, shouts to the windows above to throw them down their gloves on cold desert mornings. Babies still cry, telephones ring, Saturday morning cartoons screech, but without the men, there is a sense of muted silence, a sense of muted life.

There is an army of women waiting for their men to return to Fort Hood, Texas. As Siobhan Fallon shows in this collection of loosely interconnected short stories, each woman deals with her husband's absence differently. One wife, in an attempt to avoid thinking about the risks her husband faces in Iraq, develops an unhealthy obsession with the secret life of her neighbor. Another woman's simple trip to the PX becomes unbearable when she pulls into her Gold Star parking space. And one woman's loneliness may lead to dire consequences when her husband arrives home. In gripping, no-nonsense stories that will leave you shaken, Fallon allows you into a world tightly guarded by gates and wire. It is a place where men and women cling to the families they have created as the stress of war threatens to pull them apart.

Track listing for You Know When the Men Are Gone:

Disc 1

"You Know When the Men Are Gone"—Track 1

"Camp Liberty"—Track 21

Disc 2

"Remission"—Track 15

Disc 3

"Inside the Break"—Track 7

"The Last Stand"—Track 22

Disc 4

"Leave"—Track 14

Disc 5

"You Survived the War, Now Survive the Homecoming"—Track 6

"Gold Star"—Track 17

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"This book of stories should really be the beginnings of several novels. I fell in love with all of the characters- men who were deployed, women who kept the home fires burning and the military itself. This Fallon's first of what I hope are many, many books. "

— Laura (5 out of 5 stars)

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  • Significant both as war stories and love stories, this collection certifies Fallon as an indisputable talent.

    — Publishers Weekly Starred Review

You Know When the Men Are Gone Listener Reviews

Overall Performance: 3.7142857142857144 out of 53.7142857142857144 out of 53.7142857142857144 out of 53.7142857142857144 out of 53.7142857142857144 out of 5 (3.71)
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  • Overall Performance: 2 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 5 Narration Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5 Story Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5

    " Very well written. Too much like my real life for me to enjoy it. <br/> "

    — Jen, 5/22/2011
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    " Well written and insightful book on Army life from someone who is living it. Enjoyed the short stories and different lifestyles within the book. Look forward to reading more from this author. "

    — Linda, 5/20/2011
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    " Short stories that take place at Fort Hood told both by the wives left on the base and the men in conflict in Iraq. Compelling and disturbing. "

    — Patricia, 5/16/2011
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    " Very interesting and compulsively readable. It was so good that I'll try very hard not to be bitter that the author is talented AND young and gorgeous, although, really, how fair is that? "

    — Nette, 5/15/2011
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    " Interesting to read several stories of life on a military base. "

    — Breanna, 5/11/2011
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    " Enjoyed the book. The individual stories show the perspective and experiences that happen to the men, women and families when the soldiers go to war. "

    — Gina, 5/9/2011
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    " Interesting take on the military by looking through the eyes of the ones left behind, always waiting. Protagonists of the various stories overlap but without overstatement. "

    — Esther, 5/6/2011

About Siobhan Fallon

Siobhan Fallon is the author of You Know When the Men Are Gone, which was listed as a Best Book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, Self , the Los Angeles Public Library,and the New York Times; and won a 2012 Indies Choice Honor Award, the Texas Institute of Letters Award for First Fiction, and the 2012 Pen Center USA Literary Award in Fiction. More of Fallon’s work has appeared in Women’s Day, Good Housekeeping, New Letters, Publishers’ Weekly, NPR’s The Morning Edition, Huffington Post, and Military Spouse magazine. She has an MFA from the New School in New York City.

About Cassandra Campbell

Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration. She was been named a “Best Voice” by AudioFile magazine and in 2018 was inducted in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame.