Katie Crouch
Katie Crouch is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and Abroad. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Slate, and Salon. A MacDowell Fellow, she teaches at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.
All Books By Katie Crouch
Abroad
- By: Katie Crouch
- Narrator: Katie Crouch
- Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 17, 2014
- Language: English
-
3.4(1185 ratings)
The city of Grifonia, Italy, is swarming with secrets-thousands of years of dark, murderous secrets. Taz, a British student who has just arrived for her year abroad, thinks that she will spend her time in Italy sipping wine and taking in the rolling Umbrian hills. But she soon falls in with a cabal of posh, reckless girls-the B4-who turn her quaint fantasies into an erotic and dangerous rush through the darkest realms of friendship and love. Abroad is a chilling parable of modern girlhood from an author who “from her opening line . . . grabs you and never lets go” (People). Not since Donna Tartt’s The Secret History have we been treated to such an addictive tale of tumultuous adolescence. We see Taz scared and alone, but hungry for new experience and piqued by the thrill of living abroad. We see her roommate, the plainspoken American Claire, who worries about Taz’s motives and expresses sincere concern for her safety-but everything changes when they fall for the same man. And then there’s what we don’t see-the perils that lurk around the corner. We don’t see the secrets that friends-and lovers-keep from one another. And we don’t see the force that is bigger than Taz, bigger than her friends and loves, a force that seems to be propelling them all toward a dark, awful end. Inspired by real events but tackled with grace and sharpness by a master storyteller, this is Katie Crouch at her finest.
... Read moreEmbassy Wife
- By: Katie Crouch
- Narrator: Marni Penning
- Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 01, 2021
- Language: English
-
3.69(1726 ratings)
Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia, takes her job as a representative of her country seriously and comes up with an intricate set of rules to survive a range of problems: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s general counsel but instead a secret agent in the CIA. Ever the embassy wife, she takes the new trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Amanda Evans has just arrived in Namibia, mere weeks after giving up her Silicon Valley job, as her husband, Mark, has accepted a Fulbright. But once they arrive in the sub-Saharan desert, it becomes clear that Mark, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier, had other reasons for returning. Their marriage, which seemed solid in the safety of home, feels tenuous in the glaring heat of the Kalahari. Mark, it seems, has secrets born twenty years ago, and this journey is actually a quest to find a woman he left behind. When Amanda’s daughter becomes involved in an actual international conflict, lines are drawn in the sand, and it is clear that her own government won’t stand up for her or her daughter. Propulsive and provocative, this satirical page-turner compellingly explores the limits of human resiliency and loyalty.
... Read moreGirls in Trucks
- By: Katie Crouch
- Narrator: Joshua Ferris
- Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 07, 2008
- Language: English
-
2.84(8154 ratings)
But Sarah can’t quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they’ve left behind.
When life’
s complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto “Once a Camellia, always a Camellia” — and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.
Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.
Men and Dogs
- By: Katie Crouch
- Narrator: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 12, 2010
- Language: English
-
3.06(3160 ratings)
Twenty years later Hannah’s new life in San Francisco is unraveling. Her marriage is on the rocks, her business is bankrupt. After a disastrous attempt to win back her husband, she ends up back at her mother’s home to “rest up”, where she is once again sucked into the mystery of her missing father. Suspecting that those closest are keeping secrets — including Palmer, her emotionally closed, well-mannered brother and Warren, the beautiful boyfriend she left behind — Hannah sets out on an uproarious, dangerous quest that will test the whole family’s concepts of loyalty and faith.