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    Audiobook6 hours

    Likes

    Written by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

    Narrated by Jean Ann Douglass

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    "[Jean Ann] Douglass’ narration, intimate and bemused and every so often curling up with wryness at the end of a sentence, is a perfect match for Shun-lien Bynum’s delicate delights." -- Slate

    A Buzz Book of Fall at Publishers Lunch *     A WIRED Ultimate Summer Reading pick

    National Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s highly anticipated return weaves together like and unlike, mythic and modern

    In nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly original debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, and her masterful Ms. Hempel Chronicles have become contemporary classics--celebrated and beloved.

    In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, the struggle to gain a foothold in the capitalist shell-game of work, the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old—these stories of friendship and parenthood, celebrity and obsession, race and class and the passage of time, form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the deceitful humdrum of everyday life.

    For fans of Joy Williams, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, and Deborah Eisenberg, Likes helps us see into our unacknowledged desires and, in quick, artful, nearly invisible cuts, exposes the roots of our abiding terrors and delights.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Editor's Note

    A lot to love in ‘Likes’…

    Fans of George Saunders and Lauren Groff have a lot to love in “Likes.” From a father desperately trying to understand his tween daughter through her Instagram feed to a fairy-tale Waldorf school fair, these nine stories by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum elevate the everyday, messy lives of her characters as they search for human connection in an over-connected world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2020
    ISBN9781250776570
    Author

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of the novels Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of “20 Under 40” fiction writers by the New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles.

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