Another Life, Robert Haller
Another Life, Robert Haller
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Another Life
A Novel

Author: Robert Haller

Narrator: Eileen Stevens, Andrew Eiden, Suzie Althens, Michael Crouch

Unabridged: 12 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2019

Synopsis

Laura: a teenage girl struggling to fit into her small, sleepy town in upstate New York, slowly drifting away from reality and into the secret life she inhabits online. Paul: a twentysomething wannabe rock star, back home from New York City, broke and jobless, living with his mother. April: a math teacher with two kids, running her church’s vacation Bible school, discontent with another summer planning crafts and regurgitating verses. Ben: a boy stuck at VBS, still adjusting to the presence of his foster brother, DeShawn, a quiet, brooding kid from Brooklyn.Over the course of one summer, these characters’ paths will collide in surprising, often hilarious ways. Encompassing questions of identity, religion, race, and family, Another Life is an absorbing and thought-provoking debut about the line we all walk between desire and responsibility.

About Robert Haller

Robert Haller holds an MFA in fiction from the New School in New York City. He lives in upstate New York. Another Life is his first novel.

About Eileen Stevens

Eileen Stevens is a voice-over actress whose voice can be heard on cartoons, promos, programs for English-language learners, and audiobooks. An Earphones Award–winning narrator, she is also an audiobook director and producer.

About Andrew Eiden

Andrew Eiden is an audiobook narrator who came from a long line of theater folk and has been acting since the age of four. He has starred in dozens of commercials as well as multiple television shows. At the age of eleven, he won first place in a local drama festival, which jumpstarted his acting career. He has performed in theaters ranging from the Glendale Center Theater to the Pasadena Playhouse.

About Suzie Althens

Suzie Althens is an experienced narrator who works regularly with major publishers. She narrates titles in a wide variety of genres, including nonfiction, cozy mysteries, chick lit, suspense, and romance. A resident of Alaska, she spends her free time gardening, sketching, cooking for friends and family, and staring at the mountains

About Michael Crouch

Michael Crouch is an actor based in New York City. His audiobook narrations have earned an Audie Award, multiple Earphones Awards, and Best of the Year accolades from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. He can also be heard on national commercials, cartoons, video games, and the anime series Pokemon XY and Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anita on May 12, 2019

Another Life follows the stories of single mother April, her daughter Laura, Paul, and Ben - - all members of the same church and all struggling to cope with their personal circumstances. The story is told in alternating viewpoints by each of the characters. What I liked most about the book was that......more

Goodreads review by Greg at 2 Book Lovers Reviews on June 04, 2019

The famous “coming of age” story; you could say that it’s been done to death, but with each generation of authors there is always something fresh and new to the genre: the era, the locale, the gender of the protagonist or protagonists, as the case may be. I was first caught by the cover of Another Li......more

Goodreads review by SplatterGeist Reviews on February 18, 2019

I usually stay awake till two in the morning anxiously reading a science fiction, fantasy, or weirdly disturbing book before compiling an immediate review about it – my thoughts and emotions still fresh. This time there’s going to be an exception because I won’t be doing a wild review about any of t......more

Goodreads review by Seema on February 25, 2019

Poetic ~ Humorous ~ Subtle tl;dr: As if Vacation Bible School conformed to our stereotypes of band camp. Haller writes a story about the complicated truths people find when in close quarters and forced to think about faith. These kids do many of the things teens do (or hope to do) including, though n......more

Quotes

“Keenly observed and gracefully written, Another Life captures teenaged life in all its restless, grasping, blessed turmoil. Robert Haller’s debut novel is set in the hothouse of a small religious community where the adults roil, too. Haller has the precocious wisdom to know that the grown-ups are only older, more wrinkled versions of their kids, human and divine.” Helen Schulman, New York Times bestselling author of Come with Me and This Beautiful Life

“A fresh voice meets an old soul in Robert Haller, whose Another Life won me over completely with its dark humor, refined earnestness, and uncommon wisdom. Each page is its own thrilling announcement that a new literary writer is on the scene.” Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men

“Haller’s debut is a fast-moving ensemble story of an emotionally turbulent summer in a small town…Haller’s engaging story skillfully portrays how different generations grapple with faith, as well as the temptations of substance use and sexual exploration.” Publishers Weekly

“A sweet, fresh look at the growing pains of a conservative church community.” Booklist

“The novel is told through shifting perspectives, set around Vacation Bible Camp…They are striving towards righteousness, but finding that the mark set by the church may always be unattainable. When choosing between hell and grace, being human seems like its own sin. It is through discovering the distance between that they allow themselves to evolve.” Seattle Book Review

“With Another Life, Robert Haller joins the first rank of younger novelists. His story circles around a group of characters all members of a church in upstate New York. There is the wild minister’s daughter, the single mother trying to keep it together, the former rock star back home from a failed attempt to launch in New York City. Each story line is precise and soulful. Haller understands that our search for greater meaning and connection cannot be contained in a church building alone, or by a single set of doctrines. Family, race, love, God: Haller has original compelling ideas about all of them. I fell in love with this book; its humor, its many beautiful lines, its big, big heart.” Darcey Steinke, author of Flash Count Diary

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