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    Abroad
    Abroad
    Abroad
    Audiobook10 hours

    Abroad

    Written by Katie Crouch

    Narrated by Heather O'Neill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The city of Grifonia, Italy, is swarming with secrets-thousands of years of dark, murderous secrets. Taz, a British student who has just arrived for her year abroad, thinks that she will spend her time in Italy sipping wine and taking in the rolling Umbrian hills. But she soon falls in with a cabal of posh, reckless girls-the B4-who turn her quaint fantasies into an erotic and dangerous rush through the darkest realms of friendship and love. Abroad is a chilling parable of modern girlhood from an author who "from her opening line . . . grabs you and never lets go" (People). Not since Donna Tartt's The Secret History have we been treated to such an addictive tale of tumultuous adolescence. We see Taz scared and alone, but hungry for new experience and piqued by the thrill of living abroad. We see her roommate, the plainspoken American Claire, who worries about Taz's motives and expresses sincere concern for her safety-but everything changes when they fall for the same man. And then there's what we don't see-the perils that lurk around the corner. We don't see the secrets that friends-and lovers-keep from one another. And we don't see the force that is bigger than Taz, bigger than her friends and loves, a force that seems to be propelling them all toward a dark, awful end. Inspired by real events but tackled with grace and sharpness by a master storyteller, this is Katie Crouch at her finest.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 17, 2014
    ISBN9781490632537
    Abroad
    Author

    Katie Crouch

    Katie Crouch was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and now lives in San Francisco. Having finished her MFA at Columbia in 2005, Katie has written for the the New York Observer, Teen, and Self. She is the author of the bestselling novel Girls in Trucks.

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    • 3/5
      Throughout the whole book you know something is off. Small town in Italy, history of tragic female "good" deaths, sketchy friends and lovers. Did not go where I thought it was going and I was hugely disappointed in the ending.