The Heart and Other Monsters
A Memoir
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Narrateur(s):
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Marina Pratt
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Auteur(s):
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Rose Andersen
À propos de cet audio
"Impossible to put down. It haunts me still.” —Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
A riveting, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis—an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime.
In November 2013, Rose Andersen’s younger sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s home in a small town with one of the highest rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her generation, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 24 years old.
To imagine her way into Sarah’s life, Rose revisits their volatile childhood, marked by their stepfather’s omnipresent rage and their father’s pathological lying. As the dysfunction comes into focus, so does a broader picture of the opioid crisis and the drug rehabilitation industry in small towns across America. And when Rose learns from the coroner that Sarah’s cause of death was a methamphetamine overdose, the story takes a wildly unexpected turn.
As Andersen sifts through her sister’s last days, we come to recognize the contours of grief and its aftermath: the psychic shattering which can turn to anger, the pursuit of an ever-elusive verdict, and the intensely personal rites of imagination and art needed to actually move on.
Reminiscent of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body, Maggie Nelson’s Jane: A Murder, and Lacy M. Johnson’s The Other Side, Andersen’s debut is a potent, profoundly original journey into and out of loss.©2020 Rose Andersen (P)2020 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- D. Kingsmill
- 2021-04-05
A story told exactly as it needs to be
This is an excellent memoir. Rose Andersen’s writing is at once conservative and descriptive, every word in its place, working to communicate her story. She pleads her case extremely well, and explains both her own emotions and the facts surrounding her family’s tragic story eloquently and with a real sense of heart. Marina Pratt’s narration matches this tone perfectly, inviting you to listen, and giving the story the gravitas it needs, while still leaving a few beats for the listener to consider what they are being told. Highly recommended.
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