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One True Thing

By: Anna Quindlen
Narrated by: Christina Moore
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For years, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen has been admired for her extraordinary intelligence, insight, and honesty.

A young woman sits in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her dying mother. She didn't do it, but she thinks she knows who did. In the last months of her life, Ellen Gulden's mother revealed startling secrets that challenged everything Ellen believed about her family. Now, in jail, Ellen believes those secrets will tell her who had the courage to end her mother's suffering.

©1994 Anna Quindlen (P)1995 Recorded Books
Fiction Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Heartfelt Tearjerking
Beautiful Prose • Emotional Storytelling • Excellent Characterizations • Surprising Twists • Perfect Inflections

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This writer never disappoints and this is one magnificent example. I smiled, laughed, cried through it all. I think this may be my favorite Quindlen, though her novel After Annie is a close second. Read it! You will think of your own family in new ways.

So very thought-provoking

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This is one of the most well written books I've experienced. Inspired by a true story, of course makes it even more emotional and heartbreaking. But it is also reads like a magnificent novel with twists and surprises until the very end. The narration could not have been more perfect . Very highly recommend!

Beautiful Story

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I have this book in paperback and have read it multiple times and enjoy it each time. This is the first time I’ve listened to it. The narrator was so good and I know that I will be listening to it again.

Amazing story

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This was a sweet story, and I admit it made me tear up a little. I did not love the narrator - there was a weird edge to her voice sometimes that made the main character unlikable. The assumption that the daughter would give up her career but that the men in the family would just continue their (presumably) more important lives was irritating. There was no reckoning of this issue.

Sweet, but somewhat dated

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Thought provoking story. Very descriptive characterization throughout. Loved the narrator's ability to give full emotional and dramatic range to the different characters.

EXCELLENT!

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