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Long Gone, Come Home - audiobook
Long Gone, Come Home - audiobook
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GoodReads, Time Travel with Summers Biggest Historical Fiction NovelsThe Root, June 2023 Books By Black Authors We Cant Wait to ReadMs. Magazine, June 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us88 Upcoming Books the Goodreads Editors Cant Wait to ReadSheReads, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of Summer 2023Thoughts from a Page, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of Summer 2023BookBub, Best Historical Fiction of Summer 2023Audiofiles Best Audiobooks of July 2023 and Earphones Award WinnerSpanning from the joyous peak of the 1930s jazz era to the Great Depression and civil rights movement, Long Gone, Come Home weaves a poetic tale of love, life, and loss as one woman learns the true meaning of home.Birdie Jennings dreams of a big life beyond her small town of Mt. Sterling, Kentuckybeyond her mundane job tying tobacco leaves at Wrights Factory, beyond her position as the baby of the family. Her life changes when she meets smooth-talking Jimmy Walker. Jimmy makes big promises for an exciting life together, and Birdie is quickly swept off her feet. But some short years after they marry, Jimmy disappears without a trace, leaving Birdie hurt and alone with their two toddlers. Out of money and out of options, Birdie moves back home with her overbearing mother.Just as shes settling into her new life, Birdie witnesses a gruesome murder and is urged to flee Mt. Sterling to avoid questioning. With nothing but a borrowed suitcase and a questionable note about a house in Cincinnati promised to Jimmy, she travels to the big city just as she and Jimmy dreamed, determined to put her life back together. Plunged into the bustling jazz scenes of the hottest nightclubs and backwoods juke joints, Birdie learns that finding her place among criminals and saints is toughbut she is tougher. Even when some harsh lessons threaten the life she's created on her own terms
GoodReads, Time Travel with Summers Biggest Historical Fiction NovelsThe Root, June 2023 Books By Black Authors We Cant Wait to ReadMs. Magazine, June 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us88 Upcoming Books the Goodreads Editors Cant Wait to ReadSheReads, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of Summer 2023Thoughts from a Page, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of Summer 2023BookBub, Best Historical Fiction of Summer 2023Audiofiles Best Audiobooks of July 2023 and Earphones Award WinnerSpanning from the joyous peak of the 1930s jazz era to the Great Depression and civil rights movement, Long Gone, Come Home weaves a poetic tale of love, life, and loss as one woman learns the true meaning of home.Birdie Jennings dreams of a big life beyond her small town of Mt. Sterling, Kentuckybeyond her mundane job tying tobacco leaves at Wrights Factory, beyond her position as the baby of the family. Her life changes when she meets smooth-talking Jimmy Walker. Jimmy makes big promises for an exciting life together, and Birdie is quickly swept off her feet. But some short years after they marry, Jimmy disappears without a trace, leaving Birdie hurt and alone with their two toddlers. Out of money and out of options, Birdie moves back home with her overbearing mother.Just as shes settling into her new life, Birdie witnesses a gruesome murder and is urged to flee Mt. Sterling to avoid questioning. With nothing but a borrowed suitcase and a questionable note about a house in Cincinnati promised to Jimmy, she travels to the big city just as she and Jimmy dreamed, determined to put her life back together. Plunged into the bustling jazz scenes of the hottest nightclubs and backwoods juke joints, Birdie learns that finding her place among criminals and saints is toughbut she is tougher. Even when some harsh lessons threaten the life she's created on her own terms
| Kategoria: | Obcojęzyczne |
| Język: | Angielski |
| Zabezpieczenie: | brak |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4882-2795-0 |
