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Everything My Mother Taught Me
- Inheritance collection
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 50 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first.
For fatefully observant Adeline, growing up carries an ominous warning from her adulterous mother: don’t say a word. Adeline vows to never speak again. But that’s not her only secret. After her mother takes a housekeeping job at a lighthouse off the tip of Cape Ann, a local woman vanishes. The key to the mystery lies with Adeline, the silent witness. New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic Alice Hoffman crafts a beautiful, heart-wrenching short story.
Alice Hoffman’s Everything My Mother Taught Me is part of Inheritance, a collection of five stories about secrets, unspoken desires, and dangerous revelations between loved ones. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single setting. By yourself, behind closed doors, or shared with someone you trust.
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- Johanna
- 2020-06-26
loved it !
just like all of Alice Hoffman's incredible books, you find yourself getting lost in the story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-02-01
This story is incredible
Sweet Lord many twists and turns... The narration is so good guys..you will love and pity the characters...
8 people found this helpful
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- Lorie
- 2020-02-19
Great short story!
I didn’t realize this was a short story. Good read!! Going to check out the other short stories from this Inheritance collection!
7 people found this helpful
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- ndwoods
- 2020-02-11
Too Short
I really enjoyed listening to this book.
story was tight and effective
I wished it was longer
4 people found this helpful
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- By AB.
- 2019-12-31
Dajavu
This story reminds me of my own life experiences as a child and young girl. Such as it was, at times I think about growing up with a mother who didn't like me. I am happy I am a loving caring person in spite of my mother.
4 people found this helpful
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- Megan Robinson
- 2020-02-29
Surviving a narcissistic mother
This short story has Hoffman’s careful establishment of environment. It’s in first person, from the point of view of a preteen girl who’s father recently died. Her very beautiful mother traded on her looks to get ahead, and had a string of married boyfriends while her husband was sick. She gets a job as a cleaning lady at a lighthouse on a remote island, unusual for its orchards and gardens and immediately strikes up an affair with one of the lighthouse keepers (there’s three of them). The daughter makes friends with the wife being cheated on, and they come up with an escape plan when the light keeper becomes increasingly abusive. It’s a decent story. I didn’t like the narrator initially, although I got used to her. She sounded too modern for a story taking place in the early 20th century, if that makes sense.
3 people found this helpful
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- Kindle Customer
- 2020-03-14
Everything my Mother Taught Me
This was short and sweet. I didn’t like the way the mother treated the daughter. She was just looking out for herself.
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- Amanda
- 2020-02-24
Total waste of 50 minutes of my life.
Sorry for being a Debbie Downer but in summary: mother-daughter angst + abusive man + nasty sex talk + faked suicide = nothing I’m interested in reading. The setting was cool, and I liked Julia. The End.
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- Carmen Gibson
- 2023-01-02
Short & Sweet
perfect bedtime story that presents the crisis, protagonist works through crisis, crisis hits boiling point and the mess is all cleaned in the ending.
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- Kristin
- 2020-02-10
great short story
Interesting short story, found it relatable and raw. emotional and full of depth. worth the listen!
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- jmfree13
- 2020-02-09
Fortitude Strength and Future
The fortitude demonstrated by a youth in the face of motherly exasperation leads to Strength and a Future free from pain
1 person found this helpful