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The Untelling
The Untelling
Author: Tayari Jones
Aria is no stranger to tragedy. Fifteen years ago, a family outing took the lives of her father and baby sister, leaving remaining members of this fractured family struggling to live with their own guilt--real and imagined. At 25, Aria believes she can reinvent herself through her planned marriage, with all its promise of a family of her own. Bu...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780792736387
ISBN-10: 0792736389
Publication Date: 5/2005
Edition: Unabridged
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Publisher: Sound Library
Book Type: Audio CD
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The Untelling, a haunting and at just the right times humorous second novel by Tayari Jones (author of the simultaneously celebratory and mournful Leaving Atlanta), sets as its central tension a tremendous fib. Or is what's at the core of the trouble recorded here a terrible accident? Or sweet but worrying love? Or a floundering mother? Or the lopsided affections of friendship and sisterhood? Or a neighborhood tottering between squalor, hominess, and detached gentrification? Or...,or..., or.... One of the many things Jones does well in this novel is route us through the tangled courses that are the complicated reality of a fully lived life. To reduce the root of the main character's trouble to the catastrophe of her youth or to the catastrophe that grips her body and her relationship in the time in which the novel is set would be too easy. And Jones has no intention of letting anybody off the hook.


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