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O Beautiful audiobook
- By: Jung Yun
- Narrator: Catherine Ho
- Category: Asian American, Fiction
- Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 09, 2021
- Language: English
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O Beautiful Audiobook Summary
From the critically-acclaimed author of Shelter, an unflinching portrayal of a woman trying to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and the tortured realities of a deeply divided America.
Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her mentor from grad school offers her a chance to write for a prestigious magazine about the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota. Elinor grew up near the Bakken, raised by an overbearing father and a distant Korean mother who met and married when he was stationed overseas. After decades away from home, Elinor returns to a landscape she hardly recognizes, overrun by tens of thousands of newcomers.
Surrounded by roughnecks seeking their fortunes in oil and long-time residents worried about their changing community, Elinor experiences a profound sense of alienation and grief. She rages at the unrelenting male gaze, the locals who still see her as a foreigner, and the memories of her family’s estrangement after her mother decided to escape her unhappy marriage, leaving Elinor and her sister behind. The longer she pursues this potentially career-altering assignment, the more her past intertwines with the story she’s trying to tell, revealing disturbing new realities that will forever change her and the way she looks at the world.
With spare and graceful prose, Jung Yun’s O Beautiful presents an immersive portrait of a community rife with tensions and competing interests, and one woman’s attempts to reconcile her anger with her love of a beautiful, but troubled land.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
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O Beautiful Audiobook Narrator
Catherine Ho is the narrator of O Beautiful audiobook that was written by Jung Yun
Jung Yun was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. Her debut novel, Shelter was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and a semi-finalist for Good Reads’ Best Fiction Book of 2016. She was a MacDowell fellow, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Tin House, among others. Currently, she resides in Baltimore, and serves as an assistant professor of English at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
About the Author(s) of O Beautiful
Jung Yun is the author of O Beautiful
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O Beautiful Full Details
| Narrator | Catherine Ho |
| Length | 10 hours 58 minutes |
| Author | Jung Yun |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | November 09, 2021 |
| ISBN | 9781250829030 |
Subjects
The publisher of the O Beautiful is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Asian American, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the O Beautiful is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250829030.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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