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Sights Unseen audiobook

  • By: Kaye Gibbons
  • Narrator: Kate Fleming
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
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Sights Unseen Audiobook Summary

The bestselling author of Charms for the Easy Life reads “her best novel since Ellen Foster.”

Kaye Gibbons’ award-winning novels of Southern family life have won rave reviews coast to coast. Now, she tells the “story of family dislocation and crisis in restrained prose of unflinching clarity, with a honing eye for the small domestic details that conjure a time, place and emotional atmosphere.” (Publishers Weekly)

To the people of Bend of the River Road, Maggie Barnes is “the Barnes woman with all the problems.” To her family, she is the unpredictable wife, elusive mother, and adored daughter-in-law, and to her maid, Pearl, she is the mistress who must be cared for like a child.

Between the suicidal lows and delirious highs, young Hattie Barnes struggles to find a place in her mother’s heart. She observes her mother’s vain attempts at normalcy, and then watches as she is driven off to the hospital psychiatric ward. Only later will Hattie discover the deep-seated hopes and fears of the woman she loves unconditionally, and her inevitable connection to her family’s past.

In heartfelt and potent prose, through Hattie’s hushed voice, Sights Unseen tells the story of a troubled relationship and the courage it takes to see it through.

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Sights Unseen Audiobook Narrator

Kate Fleming is the narrator of Sights Unseen audiobook that was written by Kaye Gibbons

Kaye Gibbons was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, on Bend of the River Road. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. At twenty-six years old, she wrote her first novel, Ellen Foster. She is also the author of A Virtuous Woman, Charms for the Easy Life, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, A Cure for Dreams, Sights Unseen, and Divining Women.

About the Author(s) of Sights Unseen

Kaye Gibbons is the author of Sights Unseen

Sights Unseen Full Details

Narrator Kate Fleming
Length 4 hours 18 minutes
Author Kaye Gibbons
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date April 19, 2024
ISBN 9781442350014

Subjects

The publisher of the Sights Unseen is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the Sights Unseen is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442350014.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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