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Strangers and Cousins audiobook

  • By: Leah Hager Cohen
  • Narrator: Leah Hager Cohen
  • Category: Family Life, Fiction
  • Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2019
  • Language: English
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Strangers and Cousins Audiobook Summary

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

One of Christian Science Monitor’s BEST FICTION OF 2019

“Funny and tender but also provocative and wise. . . One of the most hopeful and insightful novels I’ve read in years.” – Ron Charles, The Washington Post

“Serious yet joyous comedy, reminiscent of the Pultizer-winning Less”Out Magazine

A novel about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic wedding: an entertaining story about family, culture, memory, and community.

In the seemingly idyllic town of Rundle Junction, Bennie and Walter are preparing to host the wedding of their eldest daughter Clem. A marriage ceremony at their beloved, rambling home should be the happiest of occasions, but Walter and Bennie have a secret. A new community has moved to Rundle Junction, threatening the social order and forcing Bennie and Walter to confront uncomfortable truths about the lengths they would go to to maintain harmony.

Meanwhile, Aunt Glad, the oldest member of the family, arrives for the wedding plagued by long-buried memories of a scarring event that occurred when she was a girl in Rundle Junction. As she uncovers details about her role in this event, the family begins to realize that Clem’s wedding may not be exactly what it seemed. Clever, passionate, artistic Clem has her own agenda. What she doesn’t know is that by the end, everyone will have roles to play in this richly imagined ceremony of familial connection-a brood of quirky relatives, effervescent college friends, ghosts emerging from the past, a determined little mouse, and even the very group of new neighbors whose presence has shaken Rundle Junction to its core.

With Strangers and Cousins, Leah Hager Cohen delivers a story of pageantry and performance, hopefulness and growth, and introduces a winsome, unforgettable cast of characters whose lives are forever changed by events that unfold and reverberate across generations.

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Narrator Leah Hager Cohen
Length 6 hours 58 minutes
Author Leah Hager Cohen
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date May 07, 2024
ISBN 9781984839435

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The publisher of the Strangers and Cousins is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: motherhood, drama, memory, women authors, women's fiction, contemporary, women, family secrets, fiction, secret, cousins, strangers, celebration, dysfunctional family, social order, culture, literary fiction, home, community, marriage, family, chaos, wedding, House Lights, The Grief of Others, Leah Hager Cohen, mother of bride gift, mother of the bride gift, motherhood books, mother of the bride gifts, gifts for women, gifts for her, novels, women gifts, fiction books, literature, books fiction, realistic fiction books, families, Fiction, Family Life, Fiction, Contemporary Women, Fiction, Literary The BISAC Subject Code is Family Life, Fiction

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The publisher of the Strangers and Cousins is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781984839435.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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