All The Secrets of the World, Steve Almond
All The Secrets of the World, Steve Almond
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All The Secrets of the World

Author: Steve Almond

Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez

Unabridged: 13 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zando, LLC

Published: 05/03/2022

Synopsis

It's 1981 in Sacramento, and thirteen-year-old Lorena Saenz has just been paired with Jenny Stallworth for the science fair by a teacher hoping to unite two girls from starkly different worlds. Lorena begins to spend time at the Stallworth residence and finds herself seduced, not just by Jenny but her parents: Rosemary, her glamorous, needy mother, and Marcus, a scorpiologist who recognizes Lorena’s passion for learning and her confused desires. When Lorena’s troubled older brother, Tony, picks her up at the Stallworth mansion late one night, he and Marcus exchange tense words—an encounter that draws the Saenz family into the dark heart of America’s criminal justice system. To uncover the truth, Lorena must embark on an unforgiving odyssey into the desert and through the gates of a religious cult in Mexico. As she stalks a fate guided by forces beyond her reckoning, shocking secrets explode into view. Filled with pathos, humor, and a dash of the zodiac, All the Secrets of the World is a shape-shifting social novel that offers an unflinching vision of the powerful and powerless colliding. This long-awaited book is a propulsive tour de force—the sheer scope, moral complexities, and piercing insights mark a writer at the height of his powers.

About Steve Almond

Steve Almond is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His essays and reviews have been published in venues ranging from The New York Times Magazine to Ploughshares to Poets & Writers, and his short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Mysteries, and Best American Erotica. He teaches creative writing at the Neiman Fellowship at Harvard and Wesleyan and lives with his family in Arlington, Massachusetts.

About Roxanne Hernandez

Roxanne Hernandez is a 2011 Audie Award Finalist, and a top narrator choice for Young Adult, Adult Drama, and Latin American/Chicano literature. Roxanne is fluent in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, and loves doing first person point of view.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betsy on January 16, 2023

I’m a Steve Almond fan from two short story anthologies, his insightful political nonfiction, Bad Stories, and our common reverence for John Williams’s Stoner (expressed so eloquently by Almond and many other writers, a so-called group of “Stoners,” in the documentary The Act of Becoming). S......more

Goodreads review by Stella on May 19, 2022

I’m sure it’s an unpopular opinion, but the first 50 pages will not be excused in my eyes. The author visited my school, and the chapter he read as well as his interesting demeanor encouraged me to give this book a go. From the beginning, I could sense that something was wrong with how the relations......more

Goodreads review by Dorothy on April 26, 2022

I spent two entire days, and most of two nights reading ALL THE SECRETS OF THE WORLD. I couldn’t put it down. This is a seriously crazy and intense book. There’s the backdrop of Sacramento in the 1980s and the Reagan presidency, the Fabulous Forties, the politics of the Sacramento police department,......more

Goodreads review by luxie ♡ on March 02, 2022

All the Secrets of the World sucked me in like a Hoover! It was complex, riddled me with anxiety, and had me staying up all hours of the night dying to know what happens next. It begins like an unraveling teen girl drama: we see the world through Lorena’s eyes as she visits the sprawling Stallworth......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 06, 2021

All the Secrets of the World by Steve Almond As I was reading this book, I asked myself: Why do I read? The answers I came up with are: (1) to become informed or better informed on a topic (2) escape to another world (3) solving a mystery and (4) coming back to a writer whose books I have enjoyed in......more

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