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The Burning Season audiobook

  • By: Alison Wisdom
  • Narrator: Carlotta Brentan
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: July 05, 2022
  • Language: English
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The Burning Season Audiobook Summary

ONE OF GLAMOUR‘S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

“This masterful novel combines readable, lyrical prose with a compelling plot and complex characters. . . . Wisdom weaves these tangled threads with overarching themes of how the patriarchy controls women’s minds and bodies.” —Booklist (Starred Review)

The acclaimed author of We Can Only Save Ourselves returns with an urgent and unsettling story that journeys into the heart of religious fanaticism and cult behavior as it probes one woman’s struggle to define life on her own terms.

“Here comes trouble,” Rosemary’s high school English teacher used to say whenever he saw her. Rosemary has often felt like trouble, and now at thirty-two, her marriage to her college sweetheart, Paul, is crumbling. In a last-ditch attempt to restore it, she agrees to give herself over to a newly formed Christian sect in central Texas, run by charismatic young pastor Papa Jake.

While Paul acclimates quickly to the small town of Dawson and the church’s insistence on a strict set of puritanical rules, Rosemary struggles to fit in. She finds purpose only when she’s called upon to help Julie, a new mother in the community, who is feeling isolated and lost.

Then the community is rocked by a series of fires which take some church members’ homes and nearly take their lives, but which Papa Jake says are holy and a representation of God’s will.

As the fires spread, and Julie is betrayed in a terrible way, Rosemary begins to question the reality of her life, and wonders if trouble will always find her–or if she’ll ever be able to outrun it.

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The Burning Season Audiobook Narrator

Carlotta Brentan is the narrator of The Burning Season audiobook that was written by Alison Wisdom

Born, raised, and based in Houston, Texas, Alison Wisdom has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, received a novel-writing grant from Wedgwood Circle, and was a finalist for this year’s Rona Jaffe Award. She has attended Tin House and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, where she was a finalist for the Emerging Writers Fellowship. Alison’s short stories have been published in Ploughshares, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Indiana Review, and more.

About the Author(s) of The Burning Season

Alison Wisdom is the author of The Burning Season

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The Burning Season Full Details

Narrator Carlotta Brentan
Length 10 hours 21 minutes
Author Alison Wisdom
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date July 05, 2022
ISBN 9780063097605

Subjects

The publisher of the The Burning Season is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the The Burning Season is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780063097605.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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