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The Leavers
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- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 05-02-17
- Language: English
- Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $27.99
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- susan sompayrac
- 06-27-17
Overly dramatic narration.
Story bogged down by excessive descriptive details. Appreciated the socio-cultural story line. May have been more enjoyable to read rather than listen to as an audiobook.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-04-17
Great story horribly read
The story was beautifully written and very interesting but difficult to listen to give in the odd accents and tonation of the reader. This is a time to get old fashioned and just read the book.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful
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- tigerlily10
- 11-01-17
Awful narration
The narration makes this story very difficult to listen to. She alternately whispers and yells, and, as others have mentioned, is overly dramatic. She frequently sounds like she's crying, or at the very least, severely depressed, and many of her character portrayals are ridiculous sounding caricatures.
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- barbara
- 06-29-17
Narrator is off-putting, histrionic, and limited
Any additional comments?
I will finish this audiobook by reading it. As much as I enjoyed the story of an adopted Chinese boy, and felt the author captured the spirit of her characters, I couldn't abide the narrator, whose voice was grating, and who offered too many passages in a kind of screechy, histrionic fashion that I found unbearable.
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- Aimee Greene
- 08-07-18
Loved this book!
This book was a great listen. I enjoyed the narration and the story kept me engaged.
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- Susan Myers
- 04-15-18
Good but not quite a classic yet
I’d say this is an author to watch. Some of the character development was a bit weak and there were a few too many cliched themes, particularly with relation to the adoptive parents. Unlike many reviewers here, I thought the narration was good but, yes, occasionally a little over dramatic. That said, I think she conveyed the passion of the characters well.
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- Kennym
- Seminole, FL
- 06-29-17
somewhat dark story.
the book gives the reader a glimpse into the life of immigrants a well as broken relationships. I was left with the question, do we really overcome the imprint left by the environment we grew up in.
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- Adera Causey
- 05-13-17
Reader wasn't loud enough
The story is exceptional but ruined by the reader whose whispered tone and selected overdramatizations were distracting and hard to follloe
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- Claudine
- ESCONDIDO, CA, United States
- 10-26-18
A Journey of Identity
Being a minority in America creates a natural tension between who you are in your community and who you are in the context of white America. I live this daily so I identified with Demming in this story. He is on a journey, a painful one, to understand who he is while trying not to disappoint those who already have defined him. I enjoyed the way the author takes the time to draw out all the diificult and heartwarming aspects of Demming and Polly's lives. I truly enjoyed the book. My only criticism is with the narrator who was overly melodramatic with some of the white characters. She made the mother sound like she was constantly on the verge of a breakdown although the dialogue didnt support that.
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- Linda
- Salem, OR, USA
- 09-22-18
A must read
My white middle class upbringing didn’t give me any knowledge of what immigration to the US was really like. I had sympathy for learning English, I had passion that we not be racist, I have felt such anger at what our current government (and those before it) do to detainees, but I still haven’t come close to understanding this toll and the dehumanizing things we have done to people just trying to have a life. Among this eye-opening learning is woven a story of family and love. This book has become a favorite now.
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