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"From the first page, I was under Anna Solomon’s spell.” (Sue Monk Kidd)
From the author of The Book of V., a novel chosen as a must-read book by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and BookPage
Set in 1920s New England, the story of two women who are both mothers to the same unforgettable girl - a big, heartrending novel from award-winning writer Anna Solomon
One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle’s house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. The unwed daughter of wealthy Jewish industrialists and a gifted pianist bound for Radcliffe, Bea plans to leave her shameful secret behind and make a fresh start. Ten years later, Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea’s hopes for her future remain unfulfilled. She returns to her uncle’s house, seeking a refuge from her unhappiness. But she discovers far more when the rum-running manager of the local quarry inadvertently reunites her with Emma Murphy, the headstrong Irish Catholic woman who has been raising Bea’s abandoned child - now a bright, bold, cross-dressing girl named Lucy Pear, with secrets of her own.
In mesmerizing prose, award-winning author Anna Solomon weaves together an unforgettable group of characters as their lives collide on the New England coast. Set against one of America’s most turbulent decades, Leaving Lucy Pear delves into questions of class, freedom, and the meaning of family, establishing Anna Solomon as one of our most captivating storytellers.
“Anna Solomon writes with a poet’s reverence for language and a novelist’s ability to keep us turning the page. A gorgeous and engrossing meditation on motherhood, womanhood, and the sacrifices we make for love.” (J. Courtney Sullivan)
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"Gorgeously moving ... a dazzling exploration of the impact of roads untaken on motherhood, class, and gender.... Solomon expertly works on a large, mesmerizing canvas, with an almost dizzying array of characters, each moving the terrific drama of the book.... [She] renders each character so exquisitely complex, they could be the heroes of their own novels.... It’s impossible to stop reading, because Solomon has made us care so much for all the characters, because she’s fashioned a world so real, you can taste the salt spray and smell the heady fragrance of the ripe pears.” (The Boston Globe)
“Solomon’s strong prose and fleet pacing consistently provide the essential pleasures of a good story well told.... This is a book governed…by earnest empathy, a desire to give each character opportunities for growth and betterment, bravery and openness.” (Maggie Shipstead, The New York Times Book Review)
“Solomon is a beautiful writer, and her prose brings people and scenes achingly alive.... Her characters’ struggles with motherhood and identity would be compelling in any era.”(Entertainment Weekly)
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Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- De Eme en 07-16-15
De: Naomi Jackson
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Angel of Harlem
- De: Kuwanna Haulsey
- Narrado por: Brenda Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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Really Enjoyed!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-08-19
De: Kuwanna Haulsey
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A Change of Climate
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. 30 years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.
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Beautifully written
- De Patricia S. en 10-11-15
De: Hilary Mantel
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Rush Home Road
- De: Lori Lansens
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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When a 70-year-old woman finds a five-year-old girl abandoned on her doorstep, she is thrust into a sorrowful past that can only be conquered with the help of the girl who opened her memory - the very girl she is trying to save. This first novel, according to author Jacquelyn Mitchard, is one of "exquisite power, honesty, and conviction...quite nearly without flaws."
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filthy language and violent content
- De Anna en 12-16-11
De: Lori Lansens
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Carolina Moon
- De: Nora Roberts
- Narrado por: Dean Robertson
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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Tory Bodeen grew up in a run-down house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt - and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. Her one escape was her neighbor Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn’t allowed to be at home: a child. Then Hope was brutally murdered, and everything fell apart.
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Good and Bad
- De paula lewis en 06-07-09
De: Nora Roberts
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Ember Island
- De: Kimberley Freeman
- Narrado por: Jennifer Vuletic
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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A compelling tale of two women separated by a century who discover long-buried secrets in an Australian manor house. In 1891, Tilly Kirkland is reeling with shock and guilt after her tempestuous marriage ends in horrific circumstances. Fleeing to the farthest place she knows, Tilly takes a job on Ember Island in Moreton Bay, Australia, where she becomes the governess to the prison superintendent's precocious young daughter, Nell.
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Not her best book
- De Beth en 05-02-18
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Honor
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marno, Piter Marik
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London. Internationally best-selling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in.
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Complex but Compelling
- De Cariola en 04-14-13
De: Elif Shafak
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Tess of the Road
- De: Rachel Hartman
- Narrado por: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is...different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery. But on the day she is to join the nuns, Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey. She's not running away, she's running towards something.
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Beautiful and Boring, Both.
- De Ryan en 04-05-19
De: Rachel Hartman
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The Walking People
- De: Mary Beth Keane
- Narrado por: Sile Bermingham
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living.
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Irish immigratn story
- De Chrissie en 09-10-13
De: Mary Beth Keane
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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Sweetgrass
- De: Mary Alice Monroe
- Narrado por: Sandra Burr
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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Sweetgrass is a historic tract of land in South Carolina that has been home to the Blakely family for eight generations. But Sweetgrass — named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area — is in trouble. Taxes are skyrocketing. Bulldozers are leveling the surrounding properties. And the Blakelys could be forced to sell the one thing that continues to hold their disintegrating family together.
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Sweetgrass Review
- De Jean en 09-10-16
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The Secret Keeper
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 53 m
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England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.
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Kate Morton (and Caroline Lee) does it again!
- De Maria en 10-20-12
De: Kate Morton
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The Cider House Rules
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 24 h y 5 m
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From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own, who develop an extraordinary bond with one another.
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Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-02-07
De: John Irving
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Leaving Lucy Pear
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- Judith
- 10-22-17
Fabulous!
Captivating, very believeable story,
Well developed characters, could feel the setting.
Excellent, engaging , talented narrator
Definitely will recommend this audible book.
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- Hope
- 10-09-16
Great story and great storyteller
I loved the story itself. The way the author writes is beautiful and drew me in so easily. The words that I think of first to describe it are: full, deep, understanding... There are so many facets to this story and she writes with such understanding...I really enjoyed it. And Rebecca Lowman....I enjoyed the way she told the story so much I would like to find more of her work. She's fantastic! She makes the book come to life as you listen. Makes the characters almost personal. I hope these two work together again in the future. I highly recommend this read!
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-28-20
Odd.
I almost think I would have liked it better had I read it rather than listened to it. Not very likable characters. But I hate to quit a book so I kept on.
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- Rollyn Zoubek
- 08-30-16
Beautiful story
I loved this book! I fell in love with the characters and enjoyed going on the journey of their lives through the story. I highly recommend.
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- SuZ
- 12-07-19
Finding "Leaving Lucy Pear"
A gem of a book, written by Anna Solomon pared perfectly with Rebecca Lowman, my favorite narrator.
If you like your plots to be cute, tidy and wrapped up with a bow, this is not for you.
This is More: an exploration, an unfolding, redemptive story, a meandering journey ( the destination is not Disney).
There are tragic circumstances, and yet, dear reader, all is not lost.
The characters are portrayed as flawed yet not uniformly hopeless. They are individuals with choices who can grow, and yes, some do. I learned from Anna Solomon's descriptions of her historical descriptions of the times and enjoyed her writing style.
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- EKM
- 06-14-20
Filled my heart
This is the second book by Anna Solomon that I’ve listened to and I absolutely love the way she writes. The story was wonderful, and the performance by Rebecca Lowman couldn’t have been better. Highly recommend.
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- Teressa R
- 09-23-19
No plotline
Seven hours in and no real story. Unlikable characters. Hard to care about what's happening.
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