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Little Miseries audiobook

  • By: Kimberly Olson Fakih
  • Narrator: Elizabeth Cottle
  • Category: Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
  • Publisher: Dreamscape Media
  • Publish date: January 10, 2023
  • Language: English
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Little Miseries Audiobook Summary

Sometimes misery is little, and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about–old family lore about a great great great uncle who was split in two while connecting railroad cars–and the misery none of them will face. There are days at the lake, placid except for inexplicable tension the parents won’t address and the three Castle children don’t have names for. There are stories about sex and gore at cocktail parties, around bonfires, at sleepovers, in classrooms, and in the newspaper. Everyday growing pains are shadowed by the abduction of a local girl, reports of a massacre of nurses, and the harm done by strangers and by those who are charged to care for children. To survive childhood is to survive all of these miseries and tragedies–because growing up means waking up to a world that can be random and brutal. With some thematic overlap with Rick Moody’s The Ice Storm or what Mad Men would have been like if Sally Draper got to tell her side of the story, Little Miseries is set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, a time and place when parents didn’t talk much to their children but certainly talked around them–while dipping into whiskey or rum punch, whether on a long drive, on the beach, or in the comfort of their own home. Little Miseries is a tribute to what it means to come into awareness, to be a part of a family unit, and to bear responsibility for those you loved and who have been harmed along the way.

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Little Miseries Audiobook Narrator

Elizabeth Cottle is the narrator of Little Miseries audiobook that was written by Kimberly Olson Fakih

Elizabeth Cottle is an experienced actress and theater director based in New York City. She earned a BFA in communication arts and musical theatre from Ohio Northern University and has been recognized for excellence in acting by the Ohio Community Theatre Association. She also has a wide variety of performing experience outside of the stage, including narrating audiobooks, doing improv sketch comedy, singing with a jazz orchestra, and filming commercials, shorts, and indie features.

About the Author(s) of Little Miseries

Kimberly Olson Fakih is the author of Little Miseries

Little Miseries Full Details

Narrator Elizabeth Cottle
Length 9 hours 13 minutes
Author Kimberly Olson Fakih
Category
Publisher Dreamscape Media
Release date January 10, 2023
ISBN 9781666622980

Subjects

The publisher of the Little Miseries is Dreamscape Media. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Coming of Age, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the Little Miseries is Dreamscape Media. The imprint is Dreamscape Media. It is supplied by Dreamscape Media. The ISBN-13 is 9781666622980.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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