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Publisher's Summary
A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another.
A 13-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her White best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter - whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family's church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road trip with their father's ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-28-21
Wonderful
Feast was definitely my favorite. A must read novel filled with amazing short stories. Listened at 1.5 speed
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- Amelia
- 08-27-22
Fantastic stories.
At times dark, always griping, deeply relateable. originally downloaded to hear the story "exotics" but each story was just as moving as "exotics" was expected to be.
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- Josie Haynes
- 12-21-21
I just finished and I have no idea what just happened
They should have had a different person reading each small story. With the same voice all of the stories ran together yet they were so different it may have been a better book if read. I don’t recommend it on audible.
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- Shellsy M. Malveaux
- 07-25-21
Very Interesting and REAL!
This book is SOOO RAW AND REAL with the short stories! Each character brings up an inquisitive feeling out of me that drew me close to each story! Check the book out!
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- Kathy Lewis
- 05-05-21
Everyone Story Is a Gen
All the stories are great. “Milk Blood Heat,” “Feast,” and “The Hearts of Our Enemies” are my favorites. Highly recommend this book.
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- Narrated by: Eddy Lee, Fiona Rene, Matt Yang King, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 164
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 141
Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A bit boring to me
- By Fred on 07-25-21
By: Te-Ping Chen
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Wahala
- A Novel
- By: Nikki May
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 570
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Story4 out of 5 stars 508
An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group—the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Underwhelming
- By Nneka Manyara on 03-29-22
By: Nikki May
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Things We Lost to the Water
- A Novel
- By: Eric Nguyen
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4 out of 5 stars 177
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. But with time, Huong realizes she will never see her husband again. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss, her sons grow up in their absent father's shadow, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Vietnamese immigrant experience
- By Susan on 08-30-21
By: Eric Nguyen
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Lot
- Stories
- By: Bryan Washington
- Narrated by: Bryan Washington, Dion Graham, JD Jackson, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 104
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence - and discovering he likes boys.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I wanted it to be a book.
- By Kindle Customer on 09-02-19
By: Bryan Washington
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The Line That Held Us
- By: David Joy
- Narrated by: Macleod Andrews
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 303
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 301
When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years, he never expected he'd accidentally shoot a man digging ginseng. Worse yet, he's killed a Brewer, a family notorious for vengeance and violence. With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the help of the only man he knows will answer, his best friend, Calvin Hooper. But when Dwayne Brewer comes looking for his missing brother and stumbles onto a blood trail leading straight back to Darl and Calvin, a nightmare of revenge rips apart their world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Blurred Lines that Held Me
- By The Elf in the Kitchen on 08-26-18
By: David Joy
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Everything You Are
- A Novel
- By: Kerry Anne King
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 837
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 740
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Story4 out of 5 stars 735
One tragic twist of fate destroyed Braden Healey’s hands, his musical career, and his family. Now, unable to play, adrift in an alcoholic daze, and with only fragmented memories of his past, Braden wants desperately to escape the darkness of the last eleven years. When his ex-wife and son are killed in a car accident, Braden returns home, hoping to forge a relationship with his troubled seventeen-year-old daughter, Allie. But how can he hope to rescue her from the curse that seems to shadow his family?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Cursing
- By Leigh Busch on 10-04-19
By: Kerry Anne King
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Maybe One Day
- A Novel
- By: Debbie Johnson
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
The truth changes everything. For years Jess believed that Joe - the father of her child and the only man she ever loved - had abandoned her during her greatest time of need. That belief nearly destroyed her. Seventeen years later, when cleaning out her mother’s house, Jess unpacks a box of cards and letters hidden in the attic and makes a discovery that changes everything about life as she knows it. Shaken but empowered, Jess - and her two stalwart best friends - set out on a remarkable journey to follow a set of faded postmarks around the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-02-23
By: Debbie Johnson
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Girl
- A Novel
- By: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Sheila Atim
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
"I was a girl once, but not anymore." So begins Girl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Low quality. Hard to understand.
- By RS on 04-21-20
By: Edna O'Brien
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The Far Field
- A Novel
- By: Madhuri Vijay
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 575
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 529
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Story4 out of 5 stars 526
In the wake of her mother's death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance of Bashir Ahmed, a charming Kashmiri salesman who frequented her childhood home, she is determined to confront him. But upon her arrival, Shalini is brought face to face with Kashmir's politics, as well as the tangled history of the local family that takes her in. And then life in the village turns volatile and old hatreds threaten to erupt into violence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very morose
- By Amy Lanman on 06-08-19
By: Madhuri Vijay
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Cleanness
- By: Garth Greenwell
- Narrated by: Garth Greenwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4 out of 5 stars 170
Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he's come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great narrator.
- By Michael Payne on 03-08-20
By: Garth Greenwell
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The Thing Around Your Neck
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 502
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 438
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 438
In her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie turns her penetrating eye on America in 12 dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chima...The a solute Best
- By PAUL NGALAME on 05-17-18
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What We Were Promised
- By: Lucy Tan
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story4 out of 5 stars 145
This book is a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city. What We Were Promised explores the question of what we owe to our country, our families, and ourselves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A solid book about an unfamiliar topic
- By Nanette L. Stearns on 09-20-18
By: Lucy Tan
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Thin Girls
- A Novel
- By: Diana Clarke
- Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other’s emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, they’ve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to food - or not - to battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts - consuming everything Rose won’t or can’t.
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3 out of 5 stars
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nothing special
- By Drine on 10-11-20
By: Diana Clarke
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Tokyo Ueno Station
- A Novel
- By: Yu Miri, Morgan Giles
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4 out of 5 stars 102
Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw
- By Chuck Safris on 08-06-20
By: Yu Miri, and others
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The Yellow Bird Sings
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Rosner
- Narrated by: Anna Koval, Jennifer Rosner
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 259
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 257
As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night, Shira struggles to stay still and quiet, as music pulses through her and the farmyard outside beckons. In this make-believe world, Róza can shield Shira from the horrors that surround them. But the day comes when their haven is no longer safe, and Róza must make an impossible choice: whether to keep Shira by her side or give her the chance to survive apart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravo!
- By Mary Ann Bennett on 07-31-20
By: Jennifer Rosner
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According to a Source
- A Novel
- By: Abby Stern
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 254
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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