Bug Hollow
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Emily Rankin
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Auteur(s):
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Michelle Huneven
À propos de cet audio
“Perfectly captures the unpredictability of life . . . Right down to its final moments, Huneven casually offers up little revelations that crunch as sweet and tart as pomegranate seeds.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Instantly seduces even the most news-addled reader with its lovely, lucid prose, its spot-on period details and superb gift for description . . . Huneven remains a compassionate guide through the secrets and lies, betrayals and chance encounters, losses and disappointments that buffet this broken and remade family over time."—Helen Schulman, New York Times Book Review
A decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson clan trying to make sense of the world after one event changes their lives forever
When Sally Samuelson was eight years old, her golden boy brother Ellis went missing the summer he graduated high school. Ellis finally turned up at the bucolic Bug Hollow, a last gasp of the beautiful Northern California counterculture in the seventies. He had found joy in the communal life there, but died in a freak accident weeks later.
From that point, the world of the Samuelsons never spins on the same axis, especially after Julia, Ellis’s girlfriend from Bug Hollow, shows up pregnant on their doorstep. Each Samuelson has sought their own solace: Sybil Samuelson pours herself into teaching and numbing her pain after the loss of her beloved son; her husband, Phil, had found respite in a love that developed while he was working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia; Katie, the high achieving middle Samuelson, comes home to try and make peace with her mother after a cancer diagnosis. And Sally has become the de facto caretaker to Eva, the child Ellis never knew.
Michelle Huneven is “known for five enthralling novels, which chronicle the lives of middle-class Americans in her lushly conjured native California, as her characters struggle with addiction, excruciating romances, and resounding losses as they continue to seek meaning and a way to be good” (American Academy of Arts and Letters). She captures the Samuelson clan with glorious precision and the deepest empathy as they fracture and rebuild again and again.
©2022 Michelle Huneven (P)2025 Penguin AudioCe que les critiques en disent
“Michelle Huneven’s sixth novel, Bug Hollow, instantly seduces even the most news-addled reader with its lovely, lucid prose, its spot-on period details (those pay phones!) and superb gift for description—of a sprawling cast led by a supportive engineer father, Phil, and a prickly elementary-school teacher mother, Sibyl; and especially of California’s many wildly differing landscapes…The novel evolves from its innocent opening into something more intriguing… the five-decade international saga that unfolds in 10 discrete but interwoven chapters, each narrated by a different member of the Samuelson family or its widening circle. Formally, the result is something like a narrative love child of Alice Munro’s novelistic short stories and Elizabeth Strout’s novels of interconnected short stories… Huneven is exceptionally generous with all of her characters—even the hard-to-bear Sibyl—and remains a compassionate guide through the secrets and lies, betrayals and chance encounters, losses and disappointments that buffet this broken and remade family over time."—Helen Schulman, New York Times Book Review
“Perfectly captures the unpredictability of life . . . begins with a perfectly calibrated bit of domestic comedy set during a golden summer in the mid-1970s . . . Huneven knows just how to seduce us with this family’s adventures . . . With extraordinary candor and tenderness, Huneven shuffles through those raw months when hope feels like a cheat as the Samuelsons are unmade and remade by tragedy . . . Huneven dares us to get comfortable only to yank us years or thousands of miles away. The family that initially felt so shiny and self-contained gives way to individual stories that butt up against one another at skewed angles. It’s not confusing; it’s eye-opening. The very structure of Bug Hollow reminds us that the smoothly progressive chapters of most novels are a fanciful creation of some chiropractic narrator who’s artificially aligned the disorder of actual lives. Here, the Samuelsons’ fates play out in ways that feel preposterous and completely believable . . . such graceful compression. Right down to its final moments, Huneven casually offers up little revelations that crunch as sweet and tart as pomegranate seeds.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Spellbinding . . . empathetic and propulsive.”—Boston Globe