Amber McBride
Amber McBride estimates she reads about 100 books a year. Her work has been published in literary magazines including Ploughshares and Provincetown Arts. Her debut young adult novel, Me (Moth) was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won the 2022 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, among many other accolades. She is a professor of creative writing at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, Virgina.
All Books By Amber McBride
Me (Moth)
- By: Amber McBride
- Narrator: Amber McBride
- Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.15(4088 ratings)
“This magical audiobook echoes the desire to truly understand yourself and be seen as you are, and the twist ending will leave listeners stunned.” –AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her path.
Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted.
Until she meets Sani, a boy who is also searching for his roots. If he knows more about where he comes from, maybe he’ll be able to understand his ongoing depression. And if Moth can help him feel grounded, then perhaps she too will discover the history she carries in her bones.
Moth and Sani take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors. The way each moves forward is surprising, powerful, and unforgettable.
Here is an exquisite and uplifting novel about identity, first love, and the ways that our memories and our roots steer us through the universe.
A Macmillan audio production from Feiwel & Friends
... Read moreWe Are All So Good at Smiling
- By: Amber McBride
- Narrator: Amber McBride
- Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 10, 2023
- Language: English
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4.2(370 ratings)
This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is We Are All So Good at Smiling.
This program is read by the author.
They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride.
Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before.
They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane.
The Forest whispers to Whimsy. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years.
A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends.
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