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Release date
July 22, 2021 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780008391355
- File size: 368530 KB
- Duration: 12:47:46
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Publisher's Weekly
June 28, 2021
Adams’s winsome debut follows a widower who takes up reading in order to honor the memory of his wife. After Londoner Mukesh’s wife, Naina, dies, he picks up the book she was reading before she died, The Time-Traveler’s Wife, hoping “to turn the black letters and yellowed pages into a letter from Naina to him.” When he later returns the book to the library, he meets the restless and prickly 17-year-old library worker Aleisha, who reluctantly took the job after encouragement from her troubled older brother, also a bookworm. As time passes, Mukesh and Aleisha become good friends, with Mukesh and his granddaughter, Priya, joining in on a reading list Aleisha found tucked in a returned book, which includes such classics as To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, and Beloved. When the creator of the list is revealed, there isn’t much in the way of surprise, but it gains emotional resonance after Adams links the list to a late-breaking tragic event. Adams is a brisk and solid plotter, and has an easy hand with creating characters who are easy to root for. Readers will be charmed and touched. Agent: Hayley Steed, Madeleine Milburn Literary. -
AudioFile Magazine
Narrators Tara Divina, Sagar Arya, and Paul Panting bring us this intergenerational novel about a grandfather and granddaughter who are struggling through grief and falling in love with reading. Listeners are treated to a seamless listening experience as the narrators deliver warm, rich descriptions of Mukesh and Aleisha's separate grief-stricken paths. Divina portrays the young, bored, teenager Aleisha, who is looking for something to do when she comes across a list of recommended books during her work at the local library. Panting portrays the older Mukesh, who is looking for a way to connect and is willing to read whatever his granddaughter recommends. Bookworms will love this title, which celebrates reading--and the power of books to bring us together. M.R. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
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