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The Silence of Your Name Audiobook Summary

The Silence of Your Name revolves around the suicide of Marshall’s charismatic and idealistic young husband, Tim Buxton, while they were in Ghana with Operation Crossroads Africa–a progenitor of the Peace Corps. Marshall weaves in her husband’s hidden family history, one tied to Boston’s wealthy social scene and the deaths of notorious Black Sun publisher Harry Crosby and Tim’s aunt Josephine Rotch Bigelow. By allowing readers to experience these distinct periods of time in great detail, Marshall illuminates the toxic effects of denial across classes and generations.

As Marshall moves on with her life, now a novelist and young widow, she must navigate her way in the ’70s publishing world with the guidance of her friend Philip Roth, while still processing the grief of losing her husband. Decades later, Marshall finds herself in the footprints of her past, journeying to Ghana and reuniting with a royal Queen-Mother and the steadfast community that offered her its support decades earlier. As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Megan Marshall writes, she “is relentless in her quest for understanding and release from grief and guilt … but wisdom comes incrementally and her readers partake eagerly at each stage until we, too, have learned that grief may be transformed into love–and brilliant, soothing prose.”

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The Silence of Your Name Audiobook Narrator

Alexandra Marshall is the narrator of The Silence of Your Name audiobook that was written by Alexandra Marshall

Alexandra Marshall’s essays and short fiction have appeared in AGNI, Five Points, Hunger Mountain, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, the American Prospect, the American Scholar, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and in several anthologies. She has published nearly half a dozen novels and a nonfiction book, Still Waters.

About the Author(s) of The Silence of Your Name

Alexandra Marshall is the author of The Silence of Your Name

The Silence of Your Name Full Details

Narrator Alexandra Marshall
Length 9 hours 43 minutes
Author Alexandra Marshall
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date April 20, 2024
ISBN 9798212272650

Subjects

The publisher of the The Silence of Your Name is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs

Additional info

The publisher of the The Silence of Your Name is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Alexandra Marshall. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798212272650.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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