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    A Long Time Gone
    A Long Time Gone
    A Long Time Gone
    Audiobook17 hours

    A Long Time Gone

    Written by Karen White

    Narrated by Susan Bennett, Jennifer Ikeda and Pilar Witherspoon

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    About this audiobook

    "We Walker women were born screaming into this world, the beginning of a lifelong quest to find what would quiet us. But whatever drove us away was never stronger than the pull of what brought us back ..." When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she' d left, that' s exactly what happens-- Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right. But instead she finds that her grandmother has died and that her estranged mother is drifting further away from her memories. Now Vivien is forced into the unexpected role of caretaker, challenging her personal quest to find the girl she herself once was. But for Vivien things change in ways she cannot imagine when a violent storm reveals the remains of a long-dead woman buried near the Walker home, not far from the cypress swamp that is soon to give up its ghosts. Vivien knows there is now only one way to rediscover herself-- by uncovering the secrets of her family and breaking the cycle of loss that has haunted her them for generations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 3, 2014
    ISBN9781490618890
    A Long Time Gone
    Author

    Karen White

    Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Dreams of Falling and The Night the Lights Went Out. She has two grown children and currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two spoiled Havanese dogs.

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    • 5/5
      A wonderful story of three different women and the many battles , loves, and losses they go through. I loved the characters and the different narrators.

      The author is a great storyteller! I need to listen to more of her stories!
    • 5/5
      Another wonderful book by Karen White. I’ve not read one I haven’t just loved. I love how the people in her stories wind themself around each other and the story line and that, in the end, you always learn something new about your own self and your own relationship. Her books are just beautiful!