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Golden State

A Novel

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Golden State

Auteur(s): Michelle Richmond
Narrateur(s): Käthe Mazur
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Dr. Julie Walker wakes on a summer morning in San Francisco to find a city in chaos. Today Californians are voting on a controversial ballot initiative that will change history. With the future of the state and the nation uncertain, the streets have erupted into violence.

Injured, Julie must make her way across the city by foot to the Veterans Administration Hospital, where her sister, recently returned from Afghanistan, is in labor. At the hospital a brutal scene is unfolding as a man who shares an intimate past with Julie begins to take his revenge. Throughout the ordeal Julie's estranged husband, desperate for reconciliation, sends out coded messages from the radio station where he is the well-known Voice of Midnight.

Five years in the making, Golden State is both a political thriller and a meditation on marriage, love, and loyalty. Like The Year of Fog, it is a page-turner with a philosophical bent.

©2014 Michelle Richmond (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Contemporaine Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Romance Romance contemporaine Suspense romantique Suspense

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"Nearly every feature of this mesmerizing novel is provocative, as Richmond explores the fragmented, hopeful lives of complex characters... Gripping, multilayered, must-read fiction." ( Library Journal)
"Mesmerizing and intricate, Richmond's dissection of a California on the violent brink of secession from the nation provides the backdrop to her deeper inspection of the uneasy, fragile relationship between siblings...[a] riveting read." ( Booklist)
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As she did in her multi-award-winning novel, The Year of Fog, Michelle Richmond has written an exquisite love story to San Fransisco and, by extension, to the state of California. The language is beautiful without being pretentious or precious. The character development is done perfectly. This is a story of a woman who raised herself out of a bleak impoverished childhood while not dwelling on it, and without the typical blame-and-shame trope that so many such stories evoke. The immediate story, set in San Fransisco over the course of a single historically-accurate day on which the secession vote for the state of California was taken, is a gripping tale of a hostage-taking by a Desert Storm vet inside a Veterans' hospital, during which an infant is being delivered to another vet by the story's hero, who is a doctor, and involved with both incidents. Five stars on all counts. I'm now ready to forgive Richmond for the horrific The Marriage Pact, and listen to The Year of Fog again. Although Käthe Mazur carries this audiobook exceedingly well, there were times I could almost hear what Tavia Gilbert, who did such an outstanding job with Lori Rader-Day's Under a Dark Sky, might have done with it. None-the-less, Mazur's is still a 5-star performance.

Exquisite!

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I loved her book The Marriage Pact but in comparison this book was slow moving and hard to follow. I gave up after chapter 4.

I wanted to love it but

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