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  • Written by: Kim Barnes
  • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
  • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Written by: Kim Barnes
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
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Publisher's Summary

The year is 1967. Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries Mason McPhee. But nothing can prepare her for the world she and Mason step into when he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia.

In the gated compound of Abqaiq, Gin and Mason are given a home with marble floors, a houseboy to cook their meals, and a gardener to tend the sandy patch out back. Even among the veiled women and strict laws, Gin's life has become the stuff of fairy tales. But when a young Bedouin woman is found dead, washed up on the shores of the Persian Gulf, Gin's world closes in around her, and the one person she trusts is nowhere to be found.
©2012 Kim Barnes (P)2012 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Women's Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction
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What the critics say

"Barnes deftly teases humanity out of corruption and hypocrisy, and her language is finely wrought and her pacing masterful..." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review)
"Barnes writes poetically and intensely about personal conflict and subtly informs the reader about continuing Western misunderstandings of Middle Eastern culture." ( Kirkus Reviews)
"One of Vogue's Six Summer Reads" ( Vogue)

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Poor narrator.

The story ok narrator took away from it. did not enjoy the voice of the narrator. I would not listen again.

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