The End of Eve

By: Ariel Gore

Narrated by: Ariel Gore

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's Summary

At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything she’s always wanted: a successful writing career, a long-term partnership, a beautiful if tiny home, a daughter in college and a son in preschool. But life’s happy endings don’t always last. If it’s not one thing, after all, it’s your mother. Her name is Eve. Her epic temper tantrums have already gotten her banned from three cab companies in Portland. And she’s here to announce that she’s dying. "Pitifully, Ariel,” she sighs. You’re all I have.” Ariel doesn’t want to take care of her crazy dying mother, but she knows she will. It’s the right thing to do, isn’t it? And, anyway, how long could it go on? "Don’t worry,” Eve says. "If I’m ever a burden, I’ll just blow my brains out.” Amidst the chaos of clowns and hospice workers, pie and too much whiskey, Ariel’s own 10-year relationship begins to unravel. Darkly humorous and intimately human, The End of Eve redefines the meaning of family and everything we’ve ever been taught to call love.

©2014 Ariel Gore (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Get Ready for a Bumpy Ride

Ariel Gore’s sensitive, sardonic memoir of her mother’s death from cancer is not what you'd expect. This was no graceful exit.

When Ariel's mother, who found too much humor in repeated watchings of "Mommy Dearest;" who got herself banned from three different Portland cab companies for histrionics, calls her up with the news that she has terminal lung cancer, Ariel realizes she's going to have to step up to the plate to take care of her.

But as Admiral Ackbar says, "It's a trap!"

Yes, her mother is dying, but she's going to burn down the funeral home on the way out. Ariel loses her home, her lover, and nearly, her wits as her manipulative mother makes further and further demands, and exacts revenge if those demands aren't met.

Ariel finds the strength, the humor, and the whiskey to keep at it and keep it together. She does what she must to see her mother through to the end and she stays on her path to find peace and new love in the end.

Ariel's own voice was the only choice for this reading. Who else could bring all the nuance of conflicting emotions to such a tough book to get right?

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I loved this so much.

Thank you so much Ariel. I just finished "We Were Witches" and "The End of Eve". They were brought to me by my daughter Krystee. Let me preface this, I am a 76-year-old white male that worked hard all my life and had little time for anything else. There are three women who brought me to the place where I could enjoy your wonderful work, my late wife Barbara who passed away in 1994 and my two daughters Laura Wallace and Krystee Sidwell. They helped me become a human being. I loved your work, it was filled with pearls of wisdom and deep insight that touched the very essence of my being. I believe your work has enriched me as a human being. Thank you so much.