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Publisher's summary
"Ariel Blake soothingly narrates this desolate tale of Marie and Lawrence as they come together and navigate an abrupt new marriage, loss of their first child, and homesteading in the rugged Alaskan wilderness during the 1950s."—AudioFile
From NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE and FLANNERY O'CONNOR AWARD WINNER Melinda Moustakis, a debut novel set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders
"So good, so precise, so strong, and so deeply felt.”—Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Recommended for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone.”—Booklist (starred review)
Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days later, they are more in love with the promise of homesteading than anything. For Lawrence, his parcel of 150 acres is an opportunity to finally belong in a world that has never delivered on its promise. For Marie, the land is an escape from the empty future she sees spinning out before her, and a risky bet is better than none at all. But over the next few years, as they work the land in an attempt to secure a deed to their homestead, they must face everything they don’t know about each other. As the Territory of Alaska moves toward statehood and inexorable change, can Marie and Lawrence create something new, or will they break apart trying?
Immersive and wild-hearted, joyfully alive to both the intimate and the elemental, Homestead is an unflinching portrait of a new state and of the hard-fought, hard-bitten work of making a family.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
Critic reviews
“Inspired by Moustakis’ own family history and set during the Alaskan Territory’s bid for statehood, this stunning debut novel considers what it truly means to own land. Recommended for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Moustakis shines in her debut…The wondrous descriptions of the back-breaking labor involved in clearing and farming the land, and of the region’s vast beauty, will make readers feel like they’re there. This evocative, well-drawn account of Alaska’s American settlers is so convincing it ought to come with a pair of mittens.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Moustakis’s writing is so good, so precise, so strong, and so deeply felt that it immediately creates a sense of time and place, and builds a quiet suspense about Marie and taciturn Lawrence. Homestead manages to be laconic and wry and visceral and primal and almost subversive in its depiction of marriage as a lovely, profound hardship.”—Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Millions and Beautiful Ruins
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Narrator wrecks storyline
- By customer on 12-01-17
By: Peter Geye
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The Child Finder
- A Novel
- By: Rene Denfeld
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon's Skookum National Forest. She would be eight years old now - if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as "the Child Finder", Naomi is their last hope.
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One Dimensional
- By Sara on 10-04-17
By: Rene Denfeld
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Walking the Choctaw Road
- Stories from Red People Memory
- By: Tim Tingle
- Narrated by: Tim Tingle
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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In Walking the Choctaw Road, Tim Tingle reaches far back into tribal memory to offer a deeply personal collection of stories woven from the supernatural, mythical, historical, and oral accounts of Choctaw people living today.
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Authentic Story Telling!
- By Cara on 01-17-13
By: Tim Tingle
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Gap Creek
- By: Robert Morgan
- Narrated by: Jill Hill
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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Gap Creek is a powerful and touching story of a marriage at the turn of the century. For Julie and Hank, life grinds ever on without pause or concern for hard work. From devastating floods to encounters with intoxicated grifters, they survive the disappointments and triumphs of their new life together. An Oprah Book Club Pick. Browse more Oprah selections.
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Painfully beautiful...
- By Eileen on 09-23-03
By: Robert Morgan
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Mrs. Mike
- By: Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of Canada to life and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.
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How could I have missed this all these years?
- By Dale C. Farran on 01-30-10
By: Benedict Freedman, and others
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Far North
- A Novel
- By: Marcel Theroux
- Narrated by: Yelena Schmulenson
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.
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Spellbinding!
- By Joan on 01-14-10
By: Marcel Theroux
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The Nick Adams Stories
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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"Of the place where he had been a boy he had written well enough. As well as he could then." So thought a dying writer in an early version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The writer was, of course, Ernest Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams. The now-famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent - a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
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Let Nick Adams introduce you to Ernest Hemingway
- By Paul on 04-04-12
By: Ernest Hemingway
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The Glovemaker
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- By: Ann Weisgarber
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes, Mikael Naramore
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves. Isolated by the red-rock cliffs that surround the town, she and her neighbors live apart from the outside world.
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Repetitive
- By RueRue on 02-10-19
By: Ann Weisgarber
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Elmet
- By: Fiona Mozley
- Narrated by: Gareth Bennett Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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In this atmospheric and profoundly moving debut, Cathy and Daniel live with their father, John, in the remote woods of Yorkshire, in a house the three of them built themselves. John is a gentle brute of a man, a former enforcer who fights for money when he has to, but who otherwise just wants to be left alone to raise his children. When a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, their precarious existence is threatened, and a series of actions is set in motion that can only end in violence.
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Strains credibility
- By DM on 01-06-18
By: Fiona Mozley
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
- By: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Narrated by: Emily Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
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Disjointed account of an extraordinary life
- By David on 05-01-15
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A Joyful Christmas
- 6 Historical Stories
- By: Cynthia Hickey, Liz Johnson, Vickie McDonough, and others
- Narrated by: Carolyn Molloy
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A Christmas collection to warm the heart. Grab a warm cup of tea and watch as romance is kindled and joy is restored to broken lives during six bygone-era Christmas celebrations.
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Heartwarming!
- By Smile on 12-16-23
By: Cynthia Hickey, and others
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Finn
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- By: Jon Clinch
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
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One hundred and twenty years ago, Mark Twain left Huckleberry Finn’s father dead in a room crowded with oddities: a wooden leg, women’s underclothing, two black cloth masks, and more. Now, in a resonant and remarkable new novel, Jon Clinch tells the story of how the brutal and explosive Finn met his end in a room jammed with the telltale artifacts of his strange and mysterious life.
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Finn brought to life in Clinch's homage to Twain.
- By Darrell on 03-21-12
By: Jon Clinch
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Mudbound
- By: Hillary Jordan
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Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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May this South never rise again.
- By Betty on 03-25-12
By: Hillary Jordan
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- Tresa m Joseph
- 03-26-24
Excellent Story
It really reviews the hardship between the land and people in homesteading thank you for an excellent story
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- Maggie B. Sennish
- 04-02-23
Excellent novel and reading
Lyrical and precise storytelling with fully alive characters, including the land. I could not put it down. Also loved the delivery by the narrator- which was as melodic as the prose.
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- RueRue
- 05-02-24
Did not like
I just didn’t like the way this story was written. Prose was very choppy. The characters seemed superficial and immature, their actions ill-advised. It was a struggle to finish.
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- Trigger
- 01-28-24
One note story- depressing.
Very monotone story line. Nothing but sadness and depression. Needed some variety. Some happiness, hope, etc. i kept expecting more. Wish I had given up.
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- Happy's
- 12-05-23
very hard to follow. was disappointed 😞
I had a very hard time trying to listen, and follow the book was very disappointing in the book.
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