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Invisible Audiobook Summary

Bestselling author Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life.

She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s–and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him clean up the city’s underworld, she was the only member of his team who was not a white male.

Eunice Hunton Carter, Stephen Carter’s grandmother, was raised in a world of stultifying expectations about race and gender, yet by the 1940s, her professional and political successes had made her one of the most famous black women in America. But her triumphs were shadowed by prejudice and tragedy. Greatly complicating her rise was her difficult relationship with her younger brother, Alphaeus, an avowed Communist who–together with his friend Dashiell Hammett–would go to prison during the McCarthy era. Yet she remained unbowed.

Moving, haunting, and as fast-paced as fiction, Invisible tells the true story of a woman who often found her path blocked by the social and political expectations of her time. But Eunice Carter never accepted defeat, and thanks to her grandson’s remarkable audiobook, her long forgotten story is once again visible.

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Invisible Audiobook Narrator

Karen Chilton is the narrator of Invisible audiobook that was written by Stephen L. Carter

Karen Chilton is a multi-talented author, actor, and audiobook narrator, as well as a freelance writer, script writer, and librettist. She wrote the biography Hazel Scott about the trailblazing jazz pianist and coauthored I Wish You Love with legendary jazz vocalist Gloria Lynne. Her acting credits include It’s Kind of a Funny Story and Half Nelson. She won a New Professional Theatre Writers award for her play Convergence and an Audiofile Golden Earphones Award for her narration of Karolyn Smardz Frost’s I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land. She has also narrated Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Jennifer Berry Hawes’ Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness.

About the Author(s) of Invisible

Stephen L. Carter is the author of Invisible

Invisible Full Details

Narrator Karen Chilton
Length 12 hours 39 minutes
Author Stephen L. Carter
Category
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date October 09, 2018
ISBN 9781427289346

Subjects

The publisher of the Invisible is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Organized Crime, True Crime

Additional info

The publisher of the Invisible is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427289346.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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