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Escape Plans

Written by: Teri Vlassopoulos
Narrated by: Amanda Barker, M. John Kennedy, Gina Clayton
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Publisher's Summary

My father drowned in the Aegean Sea, 50 nautical miles northeast of the port of Piraeus. When it happened, my mother and I were at home in Toronto. It was early evening in Greece, afternoon for us, and I was at school when she found out.

Niko Kiriakos, tentative heir to the ailing Calypso Shipping fleet, always suspected he was cursed. Following his sudden disappearance, his wife, Anna, and daughter, Zoe, are left adrift. Unmoored, they begin to test the boundaries of their lives, struggling with issues of loyalty, identity and what it means to be a family. Spanning years and tracing a route from Niagara Falls to Greece, Escape Plans is an unblinking look at the ties that bind us together and the things that pull us apart.

Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.
©2016 Teri Vlassopoulos (P)2020 Bespeak Audio Editions
Literary Fiction Genre Fiction
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“Vlassopoulos has found a way to carry over the wide-eyed curiosity and innate goodness of childhood into the mysterious, often sad, often tragic world of adulthood.” (Montreal Review of Books)

“While Escape Plans has its basis in tragedy, it’s not without humour and even, sometimes, optimism of a sort. As is often the case in modern fiction, the plot is almost a backdrop to the discovery of how and why things came to be as they are. Escape Plans is a promising debut and hopefully the first of more to come.” (Beach Metro)

“The rotating point-of-view structure in fiction has started to become somewhat of a literary trope to me, often unnecessary and even distracting. But I love how Teri uses it with purpose here.” (Booklog)

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Excellent listen

Took me back to Greece. Well written. I liked having the three narrators, and the three interweaving stories. Kept my attention.
Is classified in Audible as fiction, but in the credits at the end it made it sound like it was a biography? Maybe just the author crediting some influences. Either way, it’s good.

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