Carry Yourself Back to Me, Deborah Reed
Carry Yourself Back to Me, Deborah Reed
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Carry Yourself Back to Me

Author: Deborah Reed

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2011

Synopsis

With a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family, singer-songwriter Annie Walsh seeks refuge at her secluded home, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove and the company of her old dog Detour. But a crime connected to her brother Calder threatens to tear her family apart, and Annie is forced to shore up her loyalties and question some profound disappointments of her past. From the ever-changing present, where each hour brings an unforeseen piece of news, to the poignant childhood days of first allegiances and life-changing losses, circumstances converge and Annie steps out to lull the listener into this soulful, stirring journey like a fine and forlorn love ballad.Carry Yourself Back to Me cultivates an often tender, sometimes tart world of love and loss. Inflected with melancholy and redeemed by melody, this deeply affecting story is certain to strike a resonant chord in the heart.

About Deborah Reed

Deborah Reed comes from a long line of storytellers and musicians and finds creative inspiration in the composition of alt-country, folk, and homespun goods. She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, where she also writes suspense fiction under the name of Audrey Braun.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy

I feel like I'm always reading these quiet sort of semi-tragic novels set deep in Modern Americana, populated by lost lovers and dying dogs and unpredictable weather. I'm attracted to this kind of poetically sad modern fiction for reasons I can never entirely pin down. Maybe because secretly I think......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

Annie Walsh is a celebrated alternative country singer-songwriter living in rural Florida and has just turned forty at the start of the story. Her career is at its peak but her personal life at its nadir, after her live-in boyfriend and producer leaves her for a much younger woman and her brother is......more

Goodreads review by Joanne

Were I casting the movie version of Deborah Reed's debut novel, I'd give the great Lucinda Williams an audition for the role of Annie Walsh. If Lucinda could act with the same soul with which she writes and sings, she would bring just the right amount of melancholy angst to Reed's lushly drawn, like......more

Quotes

“Deborah Reed takes a long look at love in this graceful novel. The kind of love that ravages and lays waste to her characters, and the kind of love that might finally save us all.” —Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Once Upon a River and a National Book Award finalist for American Salvage“Deborah Reed’s novel, Carry Yourself Back to Me, marries gorgeous and wise prose with a can’t-help-but-read-one-more-chapter plot. In it, Reed weaves a complex story of love and longing that’s mysterious, intelligent and full of heart. She had me from page one.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild“Deborah Reed writes with stunning precision and grace, and with great insight into the emotional lives of her characters. Carry Yourself Back to Me is a suspenseful, entertaining and psychologically complex novel by a gifted new writer.” —Andrew Porter, author of The Theory of Light & Matter (Flannery O’Connor Award) and In Between Days

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