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This Telling
- Out of Line collection
- Narrated by: Kristen Bell
- Length: 41 mins
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This Telling
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Publisher's Summary
A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on the two accounts of her life—the real one and the one she’s always told the world—in this poignant short story by Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild.
In 1964 teenage Geraldine Waters was sent away by her parents to an unwed mothers’ home, where she gave up her newborn for adoption. Ever since, she’s lived an alternative narrative. Decades later, it’s time for Geraldine to reconcile the telling of her life, to finally grieve, and to discover what happened to that part of her past that slipped away.
Cheryl Strayed’s This Telling is part of Out of Line, an incisive collection of funny, enraging, and hopeful stories of women’s empowerment and escape. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.
Audible narration by Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars)
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- CKH Vancouver
- 2020-10-19
Amazing, heartbreaking, astonishing
So much packed into such a short story, and so many different paths this story explores a teenage pregnancy in the 1960s. BTW: there are some F bombs in the first minute (but not gratuitious, a teen is processing life changing news).
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- Lesley Brown
- 2023-01-03
Short story!!
Great short story but misread the information and am very disappointed to have spent one audio credit on 41min.
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