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The Listener: A Novel
The Listener: A Novel | Rachel Basch
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A wise and witty novel about the challenges to identity that arise in both adolescence and middle ageand the student and therapist who just may have the power to save each other. Malcolm Dowd is almost positive he recognizes the freshman who shows up for a session at his office in Baxter Colleges Center for Behavioral Healthhe just cant place her. When suddenly she stands, takes off her wig, and reveals herself as Noah, the young man Malcolm had been treating months earlier, it marks the start of a relationship that will change them both. After losing his wife at a young age, Malcolm dedicated himself to giving his two daughters the stable, predictable childhood he never had. But now nothing is predictablenot his young adult daughters, not himself, and certainly not Noah. Whether hes attending class or rehearsing for the campus musical, Noah finds hes often challenging everyones definition of gender. During the course of one semester, Noahs and Malcolms lives become entwined in ways neither could ever have imagined. Told alternately from Malcolms and Noahs perspectives The Listener explores the ways in which we conceal and reveal our identities. As truth after truth is exposed, characters are forced to reconsider themselves and reorder their lives, with few easy answers to be found for anyone. The Listener is, ultimately, about the power of human connection and the many shapes that love can take.
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ShananigansReads
Listener | Rachel Basch
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And my final #LittenListen board for October. Not bad but could have been a lot better. 🤷🏾‍♀️

@aperfectmjk

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ShananigansReads
Listener | Rachel Basch
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Updated my bingo board today. No bingo but I did manage to make all 6 books I‘ve listened to fit.

#ListenLitten @aperfectmjk #Scarathlon2022 @Clwojick #TeamSlaughter

aperfectmjk Nice! I struggle with the "Takes place in a graveyard". Next year I'm definitely switching it up. ? 2y
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ShananigansReads
Listener | Rachel Basch
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Well while I‘m updating things for #week1 I think I‘ll do all/most of my challenges. #LittenListen bingo isn‘t thriving but there‘s progress and that counts, right?

#Scarathalon2022 @Clwojick #TeamSlaughter @aperfectmjk

aperfectmjk I haven't even checked mine. 🤦‍♀️ 2y
ShananigansReads @aperfectmjk I‘m avoiding doing actual work so it‘s the perfect time to check up on challenges 🙃 2y
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SophfroniaScott
The Listener: A Novel | Rachel Basch
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Awesome turnout today for the latest installment of the Connecticut Authors Reading Series, an event I curate every other month at Cyrenius H. Booth Library. Thanks to our authors Rachel Basch (THE LISTENER), Charlotte Rogan (THE LIFEBOAT and NOW AND THEN), and essayist James M. Chesbro. Especially grateful to our attendees who participated in a great discussion covering topics including setting, voice, and truth in creative nonfiction.

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shawnmooney
The Listener: A Novel | Rachel Basch
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I can't remember ever enjoying a therapist-client-themed novel before, but I might give this one a try.

Lindy I enjoyed an atmospheric novel about a creepy guy eavesdropping on a therapist and her lesbian client: 8y
shawnmooney @Lindy You would have, wouldn't've you? :) I'll check it. I read Homes's therapy novel years ago, didn't care for it, though. 8y
Lindy The only one by Homes that I've read is her memoir. It was good: 8y
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shawnmooney @Lindy Having just read the memoir's blurb, I can see that the novel I mentioned is quite autobiographical. 8y
Lindy I keep meaning to read something else by Homes, so I'm glad to know which to avoid. I might try her short stories, or her award winning 8y
shawnmooney @Lindy If you enjoyed the memoir, you might enjoy that novel. I see I rated it it four out of five stars so I didn't hate it. Actually, I'm an adoptee, and I read it during my searching phase. It must've resonated back then but my memory of it hasn't aged well. 8y
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