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The Long Answer
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Publisher's Summary
A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound and provocative novel.
Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna's own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose stories of the children they have had, or longed for, or lost, crowd in.
The Long Answer is a stunning novel of secrets kept, and secrets shared. Deeply empathetic and hugely absorbing, it unravels the intimate dynamics of female friendship, sisterhood, motherhood and grief, and the ways that women are bound together and pulled apart by their shared and contrasting experiences of pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, and infertility.
Critic Reviews
“A brilliant debut, both coolly empathetic and searingly personal, a powerful bridge between fiction's two current modes. Anna Hogeland writes beautifully, with unwavering passion and insight, about the complexities of motherhood and female relationships.” (Jess Walter, New York Times best-selling author of The Cold Millions)
“In concentric circles of stories told and stories secreted away, The Long Answer is about women making life and losing life and about fertility itself - the promise and the more complicated truth. This beautiful novel tugs at friendship, marriage, family and women in moments of heartbreaking and miraculous transformation.” (Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty)
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- Rhonda Morrison
- 11-08-22
Drivel
I am always looking for female centered books but this one has no central plot and changes characters way too fast and has too many. Editor?
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- Carol Stein-Payne
- 06-26-22
Powerful, intimate, relevant, important
Anna Hogeland 's novel takes us through the lives of several women whose stories are painful, uplifting, and familiar yet have, until now, remained uncharted territory. An important and rewarding read, now more than ever. Bravo!
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- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 157
Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Just as she’s finishing the book tour for her latest bestseller, Dana is asked to join the church search committee for a new minister. Under pressure to find her next book idea, she agrees, and resolves to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes, about the experience. That memoir, Search, follows the travails of the committee and their candidates—and becomes its own media sensation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I listened twice.
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By: Michelle Huneven
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Mother in the Dark
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- By: Kayla Maiuri
- Narrated by: Holly Linneman, Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
Growing up in an Italian American family in working-class Boston, Anna lives a simple but comfortable childhood—filled with homemade meals and front-porch gatherings in a close-knit neighborhood. She and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the sun, trying to keep up with her loving but mercurial nature. When their father gets a new job outside the city, the family is tossed unceremoniously into a middle-class suburban existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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you won't want to put it down
- By KylieLynne1013 on 08-23-22
By: Kayla Maiuri
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Dinosaurs
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- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
Lydia Millet's exquisite new novel tells the story of an Arizona man’s relationship with the family next door, whose house has one wall made entirely out of glass. The story delivers attraction and love, friendship and grief. But Millet also evokes the uncanny. Through close observation of human and animal life in the desert, she captures the daunting scale of human society without losing sight of the real difference one person can make in the world. Written with humor and benevolence, Dinosaurs asks big questions: Can a person be good? Can a man be good?
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1 out of 5 stars
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I don't get it!
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By: Lydia Millet
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The Book of Goose
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- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4 out of 5 stars 98
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised—the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves—until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a weirdo
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By: Yiyun Li
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A Very Nice Girl
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- By: Imogen Crimp
- Narrated by: Olivia Forrest
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
Anna knows she has talent, but she’s always felt out of place in the world of opera. A first-year student at a prestigious London conservatoire, she lives in a grim series of rented rooms with her friend Laurie, a sharp-tongued waitress and aspiring writer. Her days are devoted to highly competitive auditions and long, straining rehearsals. At night, she sings jazz in an expensive bar, relying on her popularity with the inebriated businessmen to make rent and stay afloat alongside her wealthy peers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Plausible.
- By Whitney on 02-16-22
By: Imogen Crimp
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Boy Parts
- By: Eliza Clark
- Narrated by: Eliza Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 280
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A modern American psycho but British
- By sofia on 09-23-21
By: Eliza Clark
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Sorrow and Bliss
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- By: Meg Mason
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 994
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 993
Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick—the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy—has just moved out.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointed -- 2.75 Stars
- By Sharey on 06-07-21
By: Meg Mason
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They're Going to Love You
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- By: Meg Howrey
- Narrated by: Meg Howrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Throughout her childhood, Carlisle Martin got to see her father, Robert, for only a few precious weeks a year when she visited the brownstone apartment in Greenwich Village he shared with his partner, James. Brilliant but troubled, James gave Carlisle an education in all that he held dear in life—literature, music, and, most of all, dance. Seduced by the heady pull of mentorship and hoping to follow in the footsteps of her mother—a former Balanchine ballerina—Carlisle’s aspiration to become a professional ballet dancer bloomed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love you
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By: Meg Howrey
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The Furrows
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- By: Namwali Serpell
- Narrated by: Kristen Ariza, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story3 out of 5 stars 54
Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when they’re alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can’t give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children. As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in bistros, airplane aisles, subway cars.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe try reading it?
- By Anonymous User on 03-06-23
By: Namwali Serpell
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We All Want Impossible Things
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- By: Catherine Newman
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4 out of 5 stars 136
Edith and Ashley have been best friends for more than 42 years. They’ve shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan’s Island reruns and REM concerts; marriages, infertility, and children. But now the unthinkable has happened. Edi is dying of ovarian cancer and spending her last days at a hospice near Ash, who stumbles into heartbreak surrounded by her daughters, ex(ish) husband, dear friends, a poorly chosen lover (or two), and a rotating cast of beautifully, fleetingly human hospice characters.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unnecessarily long
- By Sylvia M. Arciniega on 12-16-22
By: Catherine Newman
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A Dangerous Business
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 85
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 85
Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can’t resist confronting.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just dumb
- By J wilson on 12-14-22
By: Jane Smiley
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Alone with You in the Ether
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- By: Olivie Blake
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- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 121
Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For both, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability—until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blown Away!
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-22
By: Olivie Blake
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