Found: A Novel (Audiobook) about a village where mothers vanish
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1Daisyismyalias
Hi folks,
About a year ago, I listened to a book on CD that I checked out from the library, I'm trying to find it again. I don't know the title, and I browsed the Audio book collection recently and couldn't find a cover that stood out. The reader was a woman with an English accent.
It was a relatively short novel about a fictional village in a jungle setting. In the town, visitors are rare, although one does arrive at the beginning of the story, she is a photographer. In the town, sometimes, without warning, mothers vanish in the night. When this happens the village gets together to distribute her things so that she will not be remembered in her own home. Our narrator's mother disappears this way when she is young.
When our narrator becomes a mother she begins to wonder about the outside world, what else could be. She fears vanishing, so in the night she leaves her family and village. The story follows her in the outside world as she navigates working as a house keeper in an oceanside hotel. She often misses her family and home.
At the end of the story it becomes clear that the original visitor saw a mother, returning to see the town who couldn’t be remembered because her photos were burned on the morning of her disappearance. The visitor has an affair with a man in the village. He was her partner before she vanished.
About a year ago, I listened to a book on CD that I checked out from the library, I'm trying to find it again. I don't know the title, and I browsed the Audio book collection recently and couldn't find a cover that stood out. The reader was a woman with an English accent.
It was a relatively short novel about a fictional village in a jungle setting. In the town, visitors are rare, although one does arrive at the beginning of the story, she is a photographer. In the town, sometimes, without warning, mothers vanish in the night. When this happens the village gets together to distribute her things so that she will not be remembered in her own home. Our narrator's mother disappears this way when she is young.
When our narrator becomes a mother she begins to wonder about the outside world, what else could be. She fears vanishing, so in the night she leaves her family and village. The story follows her in the outside world as she navigates working as a house keeper in an oceanside hotel. She often misses her family and home.
At the end of the story it becomes clear that the original visitor saw a mother, returning to see the town who couldn’t be remembered because her photos were burned on the morning of her disappearance. The visitor has an affair with a man in the village. He was her partner before she vanished.
2MissSquish
Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin? Narrated by Ell Potter.
Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives; it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning.
Vera, a young girl when her own mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate.
Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives; it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning.
Vera, a young girl when her own mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate.
