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Block Seventeen audiobook

  • By: Kimiko Guthrie
  • Narrator: Natalie Naudus
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
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Block Seventeen Audiobook Summary

Akiko “Jane” Thompson, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman in her midthirties, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fiance, Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident, things begin to unravel. An intruder ransacks their apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only cryptic traces of his or her presence. Shiro, obsessed with government surveillance, risks their security in a plot to expose the misdeeds of his employer, the TSA. Jane’s mother has seemingly disappeared, her existence only apparent online. Jane wants to ignore these worrisome disturbances until a cry from the past robs her of all peace, forcing her to uncover a long-buried family trauma.

As Jane searches for her mother, she confronts her family’s fraught history in America. She learns how the incarceration of Japanese Americans fractured her family, and how persecution and fear can drive a person to commit desperate acts.

In melodic and suspenseful prose, Guthrie leads the reader to and from the past, through an unreliable present, and, inescapably, toward a shocking revelation. Block Seventeen, at times playful and light, at others disturbing and disorienting, explores how fear of the “other” continues to shape our minds and distort our world.

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Block Seventeen Audiobook Narrator

Natalie Naudus is the narrator of Block Seventeen audiobook that was written by Kimiko Guthrie

Natalie Naudus is an award-winning audiobook narrator. After receiving her master’s in music from the University of North Texas, she went on to become an opera singer. She has a passion for stories and characters and excels at unique character voices and passionate storytelling. She currently resides with her husband and two daughters on a mountaintop in Virginia.

About the Author(s) of Block Seventeen

Kimiko Guthrie is the author of Block Seventeen

Subjects

The publisher of the Block Seventeen is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the Block Seventeen is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781982676407.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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