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    Death and the Butterfly: A Novel
    Death and the Butterfly: A Novel
    Death and the Butterfly: A Novel
    Audiobook5 hours

    Death and the Butterfly: A Novel

    Written by Colin Hester

    Narrated by Carol Schneider

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A Sweeping Multigenerational Story Centered Around Endless Heartbreak and Enduring Love.

    London, England, September 1940. Thirteen year-old Susan McEwan and her older brother, Phillip, a pilot, witness firsthand the initial Nazi bombing of civilian London. Weeks later, Phillip’s Sunderland bomber is shot down, and his family is wordlessly devastated.

    Toronto, Canada, the early 1980s. As a young couple struggles to survive the Reagan recession, the husband, Alexander Polo, is forced to take a job as a paperboy. When the wife, Julie, discovers she is pregnant, Polo must now confront his future head-on with his heart open.

    Montana, the first days of September 2001. His wedding day overshadowed by the tragedy of 9/11, Jack Riordan discovers a magazine story written by Polo about Susan and airplanes and her love of the poems of Pablo Neruda.

    With humor and insight, Colin Hester explores how Susan, Polo, and Jack carry on—grieving the death of a child or the end of a marriage—in deeply felt and beautifully imagined prose.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    Release dateAug 11, 2020
    ISBN9781094411842
    Death and the Butterfly: A Novel
    Author

    Colin Hester

    COLIN HESTER is a British-born former student of Zen and former thirty-year-old paperboy. The author of Diamond Sutra, Hester has taught writing at Central Washington University, the University of Montana, and the University of Colorado. He lives just north of Seattle with his British-born wife and his U.S.-born cat. Find out more at colinhester.com.

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    • 1/5
      Couldn't get past the first two chapters as the narrator's interpretation of English and I think it might have been Scottish accents was just too painful

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      If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it

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    • 2/5
      I’m sure this is a good story and perhaps I should try reading the book, but I just couldn’t get past the absolutely awful accents. Please please please Americans, don’t try to do English accents!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I found it difficult to follow in the beginning and was subsequently disappointed with the vulgarity of the language.

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