The Gap Year

Sarah Bird

May 2012 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Christina Moore and Jennifer Ikeda

About this audiobook

Sarah Bird is acclaimed for her multi-layered novels that are at once hilarious and moving. Here Bird examines "the ever-deepening mysteries of parents and children as they grow up and apart" (Publishers Weekly). Working single-mother Cam Lightsey is proud to give her daughter Aubrey a chance at a good education. But when Aubrey turns her attention away from college and toward a boy at school, their once solid mother-daughter relationship quickly begins to crumble. ". wry and funny . Sure to please Bird's fans."-Library Journal

About the author

Sarah Bird is the author of four previous novels: "Virgin of the Rodeo", "The Boyfriend School", "Alamo House", & "The Mommy Club", which received the Texas Institute of Letters 1991 Fiction Award. She lives in Austin, Texas.