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A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl audiobook

  • By: Jean Thompson
  • Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2018
  • Language: English
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A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl Audiobook Summary

From National Book Award finalist and the New York Timesbestselling author of The Year We Left Home comes a “powerful, beautifully crafted” (People) family saga about three generations of women who struggle to find freedom and happiness in their small Midwestern college town.

A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is a poignant novel about three generations of the Wise family–Evelyn, Laura, and Grace–as they hunt for contentment amid chaos of their own making.

We see these women and their trials, small and large: social slights and heartbreaks; marital disappointments and infidelities; familial dysfunction; mortality. Spanning from World War II to the present, Thompson reveals a matrilineal love story that is so perfectly grounded in our time–a story of three women regressing, stalling, and yes, evolving, over decades. One of the burning questions she asks is: by serving her family, is a woman destined to repeat the mistakes of previous generations, or can she transcend the expectations of a place, and a time? Can she truly be free?

Evelyn, Laura, and Grace are the glue that binds their family together. Tethered to their small Midwestern town–by choice or chance–Jean Thompson seamlessly weaves together the stories of the Wise women with humanity and elegance, through their heartbreaks, setbacks, triumphs, and tragedies. “Thompson’s new novel draws the reader in with character and plot…but what ultimately holds the reader enthralled is…her ability to capture the nuance of individual moments, thoughts, and reactions. No one writing today is better at this…[an] extraordinary novel” (Washington Independent Review of Books).

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A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl Audiobook Narrator

Cassandra Campbell is the narrator of A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl audiobook that was written by Jean Thompson

About the Author(s) of A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

Jean Thompson is the author of A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl Full Details

Narrator Cassandra Campbell
Length 10 hours 59 minutes
Author Jean Thompson
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date April 23, 2024
ISBN 9781508263043

Subjects

The publisher of the A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781508263043.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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