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Tell the Machine Goodnight audiobook
- By: Katie Williams
- Narrator: Rebecca Lowman
- Category: Coming of Age, Fiction
- Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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Tell the Machine Goodnight Audiobook Summary
“Imaginative, engaging, emotionally resonant…this novel is itself a receipe for contentment.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Smart and inventive, an emotional page-turner that considers the elusive definition of happiness.
Pearl’s job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She’s good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion?
Meanwhile, there’s Pearl’s teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of “pursuit of happiness.” As his mother, Pearl wants nothing more than to help Rhett–but is it for his sake or for hers? Certainly it would make Pearl happier. Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job–not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either.
Told from an alternating cast of endearing characters from within Pearl and Rhett’s world, Tell the Machine Goodnight delivers a smartly moving and entertaining story about relationships and the ways that they can most surprise and define us. Along the way, Katie Williams playfully illuminates our national obsession with positive psychology, our reliance on quick fixes and technology. What happens when these obsessions begin to overlap? With warmth, humor, and a clever touch, Williams taps into our collective unease about the modern world and allows us see it a little more clearly.
Read by Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne, and Alex McKenna, with Jorjeana Marie, Arthur Morey, and Cassandra Morris
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Tell the Machine Goodnight Full Details
| Narrator | Rebecca Lowman |
| Length | 8 hours 39 minutes |
| Author | Katie Williams |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525626251 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Tell the Machine Goodnight is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: art books, realistic fiction books, novels, book club recommendations, literary fiction, fiction, virtual reality, house fire, dystopian, divorce, blended family, art gallery, artist, horror film, coming of age, bullying, eating disorders, office life, relationships, love, family, alternate reality, black mirror, scientific, technology, science fiction, future, best selling books for women, books for women best sellers, popular books for women, best books for book clubs, drama, books fiction, fiction books, literature, friendship, Fiction, Coming of Age, Fiction, Family Life, Fiction, Literary The BISAC Subject Code is Coming of Age, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the Tell the Machine Goodnight 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 9780525626251.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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