You Are Not A Stranger Here: Stories

Adam Haslett

Apr 2014 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Steven Crossley, Jonathan Todd Ross, James Jenner, Norman Dietz, and Scott Sowers

About this audiobook

In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.

Ratings and reviews

The chapters are out of order, so if you start listening chapter one, you arent even listening to the beginning of the story. This is frustrating. I would like a refund.