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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

A Novel

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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Written by: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
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In this moving, poignant novel by the best-selling author of Birds of America, we share a grown woman's bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth.

The summer Berie was 15, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small-town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger - until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help - and then everything changes.

©2019 Lorrie Moore (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fiction Growing Up Romance Women's Fiction
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Such a sad, true and honest rendering of how in one’s inner life, there is often a dissonance with our outer projection.

This book will stay with me for a very long time.

A Poignant Portrait of Girlhood

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This felt like it was a novella and then a completely different short story that was mushed together to make a somewhat disjointed while. I think you would have worked better if it just focused on the coming-of-age story of Berrie and Sils.

Narration was spot on!

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