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Hestia Strikes a Match audiobook
- By: Christine Grillo
- Narrator: Jeremy Carlisle Parker
- Category: Contemporary Women, Fiction
- Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 18, 2023
- Language: English
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Hestia Strikes a Match Audiobook Summary
This program features multicast narration.
Christine Grillo’s Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war.
The year is 2023, and things are bad—bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they’re leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it’s Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends.
Hestia has left journalism (too much war reporting) for a job at a Baltimore retirement village on the Inner Harbor (lots of security). She’s single and adrift, save for her coworkers and Mildred, an eighty-four-year-old, thrice-happily-married resident who gleefully supports Hestia’s half-hearted but hopeful attempts to find love again in a time of chaos and disunion. She reckons with the big questions (How do we live in the midst of political collapse? How do we love people who believe terrible things?) and the little ones (How do I decorate a nonworking fireplace? Can I hook up with a mime?), all while wrestling with that simmering, roiling, occasionally boiling feeling that things are decidedly not okay, but we have to keep going, one foot in front of the other, because maybe, just maybe, we can still find the kinds of relationships that sustain a person through anything.
Christine Grillo’s Hestia Strikes a Match is an irreverent, incisive, laugh-out-loud interrogation of modern love of all kinds, in all its messy beauty. Equal parts wise and hilarious, it fills the heart, fortifies the spirit, and will surely help to fend off despair. In the face of the everyday wildness of our times, it asks and answers that newly constant question: How do we make a full, wonderfully ordinary life when the whole mad world is clattering down around us?
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Hestia Strikes a Match Audiobook Narrator
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About the Author(s) of Hestia Strikes a Match
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Hestia Strikes a Match Full Details
| Narrator | Jeremy Carlisle Parker |
| Length | 12 hours 25 minutes |
| Author | Christine Grillo |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | April 18, 2023 |
| ISBN | 9781250883773 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Hestia Strikes a Match is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: Women, Fiction, Contemporary Women, Fiction, Literary The BISAC Subject Code is Contemporary Women, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the Hestia Strikes a Match is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250883773.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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