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Publisher's Summary
A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong—not only to a place but to one another.
Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic. That took courage. It's also unforgivable.
When Penelope moves into the attic apartment of the affluent Harpers, she thinks she's found a semblance of family—and maybe even love. But her world is upended again when she receives a postcard from Mirella asking for reconciliation. As old wounds are reopened, and secrets revealed, a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins.
An engrossing debut, Halsey Street shifts between the perspectives of these two captivating, troubled women. Mirella has one last chance to win back the heart of the daughter she'd lost long before leaving New York, and for Penelope, it's time to break free of the hold of the past and start navigating her own life.
Critic Reviews
"Narrator Bahni Turpin's performance is gorgeous. Her voice has a texture that suits the nuances of the novel's plot: easy enough to absorb but with a depth and grittiness that make it interesting and real.... Well-written and beautifully read, Halsey Street is worth a stroll." (AudioFile)
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- KT
- 01-10-18
Hard to like...
Bahni Turpin was amazing as always. Her narration made this a worthwhile purchase. the story, however, seemed unfinished. Penelope was hard to like...hard to feel sympathy for a girl like her. On the other hand, she has a difficult upbringing which seemed destined because her parents had never been "parented" themselves. I'd recommend because it's an interesting an complex story. Just wish there was more of a redemption for Penelope in the end.
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- Fields
- 01-18-18
Loved it!
Great story, family, love and history. The narration was great! Hope to find more from this author.
4 people found this helpful
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- Betty G. R.
- 04-03-18
A Struggle
It took me about 7 hours into the story before I became interested in the books characters, and found that I really didn't like the main character at all, even as I understood that she, like her parent's, was a product of their upbringing.
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- juju
- 05-03-18
Predictable
This is a story of a bitter daughter of divorced parents who finally realizes its her time to grow up and forgive. There are moments of literary beauty but the story is one you’ve heard before.
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- rr
- 04-11-18
struggled to finish
great narration...however the climax was uneventful. written beautifully...felt like I was there. However, the characters were a bit too whinny about their issues for my tastes. Made their problems bigger than what it was.
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- Johnnie Rice
- 04-09-18
Just ok.
The story seemed to just skim the surface of the characters' complicated relationships. Left characters feeling underdeveloped and shallow to me. Could not connect with any of them.
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- Salvatore
- 04-07-18
Don't do it
This was a really terrible book. It was the first all-out flop I've ever listen to on Audible. The story was very hard to enjoy and the main character was extremely difficult for me to sympathize empathize or understand. Narrator was great but overall the book is garbage. I kept waiting for it to get good and it just didn't.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-02-23
Melancólica
Duro de escuchar pero emocionante en varios capítulos, muy humano y muchos temas explorados durante el relato
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- Serena Brown
- 01-11-23
Unlikeable main character
This was the most unlikeable main character I’ve ever met. Penelope is selfish, emotionally immature, and inflexible in her beliefs. Her mother was equally hard to like even when reading from her POV. I like the narrator but I regret finishing this book. There was no resolution or character growth at all.
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- S. Donaldson
- 08-01-22
Confused
I really didn’t like Penelope, the lead character. I couldn’t find a way to forgive her hatefulness to her mother. I didn’t understand Mirella either, but at least she tried at the end, and Penelope was either so hateful or so hurt she couldn’t get beyond the past. I guess it’s true that hurt people, hurt people.Confusing ending as well.
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Homesick for Another World
- Stories
- By: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Richard Poe
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities.
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Funny, Dynamic Writing
- By Sofia Macht on 06-13-18
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
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Marriage of a Thousand Lies
- A Novel
- By: SJ Sindu
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance and have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky's husband, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay.
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Am I the only person who struggled to finish?
- By monica on 06-14-19
By: SJ Sindu
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Sabrina & Corina
- Stories
- By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado - a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite - these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force. In “Sugar Babies,” ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the Earth but tend to rise during land disputes.
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Absolutely wonderful
- By Brady on 05-21-19
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And the Mountains Echoed
- By: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini, Navid Negahban, Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Khaled Hosseini, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.
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Does the End Justify the Means
- By FanB14 on 05-24-13
By: Khaled Hosseini
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Sweet Water
- A Novel
- By: Christina Baker Kline
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Amy Rubinate
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Cassie Simon is a struggling artist living in New York City. When she receives a call from a magistrate telling her she has inherited 60 acres of land in Sweetwater, Tennessee, from her grandfather, whom she never knew, she takes it as a sign: it's time for a change. She moves to the small Southern town where her mother, Ellen, grew up - and where she died tragically when Cassie was three.
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Story ok. But.
- By Rockysmom on 06-11-16
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The Knitting Circle
- By: Ann Hood
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life.
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Almost Relentlessly Dreary
- By J. C. Georgia on 06-06-08
By: Ann Hood
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Like Life
- Stories
- By: Lorrie Moore
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Like Life's eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore's characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can't quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships.
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Exquisite
- By Andrea on 10-25-21
By: Lorrie Moore
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All Things Cease to Appear
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Brundage
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone - for how many hours? - in her room across the hall. He had recently begrudgingly taken a position at a nearby private college (far too expensive for local kids to attend) teaching art history and moved his family into a tight-knit, impoverished town that has lately been discovered by wealthy outsiders in search of a rural idyll.
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Waiting for Something to Solidify
- By Mel on 06-04-16
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She's Come Undone
- By: Wally Lamb
- Narrated by: Linda Stephens
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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Really disappointing narrator!
- By Jessica Williams on 01-21-12
By: Wally Lamb
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Mrs. Kimble
- By: Jennifer Haigh
- Narrated by: Martha Plimpton
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A captivating exploration of human love, marriage, and the illusions upon which it is founded, Mrs. Kimble presents a fascinating psychological portrait of a mesmerizing opportunist and the women who believe in him. Beautifully wrought, stunningly original, Jennifer Haigh's sparkling debut marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent.
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Disappointing
- By Katherine on 01-10-05
By: Jennifer Haigh
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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
- A Novel
- By: Laura Warrell
- Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 2013, and Circus Palmer, a 40-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man, lives for his music and refuses to be tied down. Before a gig in Miami, he learns that the woman who is secretly closest to his heart, the free-spirited drummer Maggie, is pregnant by him.
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satisfying
- By MLF on 10-19-22
By: Laura Warrell
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Why We Came to the City
- By: Kristopher Jansma
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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December 2008. A heavy snowstorm is blowing through Manhattan and the economy is on the brink of collapse, but none of that matters to a handful of guests at a posh holiday party. Five years after their college graduation, the fiercely devoted friends at the heart of this richly absorbing novel remain as inseparable as ever.
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20-something Friends in New York, circa 2010
- By RueRue on 04-12-16