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Boca Raton
- (Warmer Collection)
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Series: Warmer Collection
- Length: 1 hr
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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Publisher's Summary
A mother’s latent fears rise as relentlessly as the Florida seas in a startling story of a planet, and an imagination, under pressure, by the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies.
During an eco-friendly cleanup at the beach, Ange finds something horrifying in the brush. The sickening, heartbreaking evidence of an irreversibly changing earth triggers dread about the future for her daughter. But as reasoned worries slide into paranoia, reality itself begins to untether. For Ange, there may be no stepping back from the destructive darkness of her sleepless nights.
Lauren Groff’s Boca Raton is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Tammy
- 12-04-18
Not good...
Confusing and totally impossible to follow. The narration was the only good thing about this short story.
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- Lonnie-The GreatNorthernTroll-Moore
- 11-12-18
Definitely not for me...
Well this is more like what I expected when I downloaded the Warmer Collection... All the doom and gloom wrapped up in a short story that only leaves the reader hanging, without resolution (one of my pet peeves!) I guess we're going to hafta assume it all went to sh*t... And really there wasn't anything the narrator could've done to fix this...
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Tyson Escoto
- 03-02-21
No
Pretty site this series, save 1 book, was made for elementary school classrooms. nothing insightful or interesting in most of them.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Vanessa Y
- 09-23-20
Confusing
It was short, but very confusing to me. Narration was good, but I was so lost.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Ruth Ann Orlansky
- 07-23-20
Well-Written But Depressing
Don't listen to this unless you're interested in watching the slow-moving trainwreck of the heroine's mental health as she agonizes over the implications of climate change in Florida. The narration was excellent, but the story was a downer.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Kat
- 03-19-20
Cleansing Oneself
An environmental story that every human should read. Our responsibility to future generations is told in this very creative story about loss and hope. It’s about searching for
a way to cleanse our souls...
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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- Newme22
- 11-01-18
Ok if you like doomsday type books.
There was really no hope in this book. I was a real downer from beginning to end