How We Disappear, Tara Lynn Masih
How We Disappear, Tara Lynn Masih
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How We Disappear
Novella & Stories

Author: Tara Lynn Masih

Narrator: various narrators, Erica Sullivan, Thom Rivera, Kyla Garcia, P. J. Ochlan, Siiri Scott, Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2022

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie.From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes.Described as “masterful” and as “striking and resonant” (Publishers Weekly), Masih’s fiction, crossing boundaries between historical and contemporary, sparks with awareness that nothing and no one is ever gone for good—and that the wilderness is never quite behind us.

About Tara Lynn Masih

Tara Lynn Masih is author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection Where the Dog Star Never Glows and founding series editor of The Best Small Fictions. She is a National Jewish Book Awards finalist and received a Florida Book Award and a Julia Ward Howe Award for My Real Name Is Hanna, her debut novel.

About Erica Sullivan

Erica Sullivan is a professional actress of both stage and screen and holds her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. She has spent over a decade as a Company Member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She has been busy in both the stage and screen world, and has also narrated nearly one hundred audiobooks.

About Kyla Garcia

Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.

About P. J. Ochlan

P. J. Ochlan is an Audie Award–winning, multiple Earphones Award–winning, and Voice Arts Award–nominated narrator of hundreds of audiobooks. His acting career spans more than thirty years and has also included Broadway, the New York Shakespeare Festival under Joseph Papp, critically acclaimed feature films, and television series regular roles.

About Siiri Scott

Siiri Scott is the head of acting and directing in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, where she coordinates classes, directs and prepares actors for graduate training and professional careers. She received her MFA in Acting from the Theatre School at DePaul University and has directed, performed and taught in regional theaters in Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles and Seattle.

About Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Shaun Taylor-Corbett is an actor, singer, and writer. A graduate of the University of Delaware, he has television and Broadway credits, including the role of Sonny on Broadway in In the Heights. He also has off-Broadway credits including In the Heights and Altar Boyz.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M is taking a break.

Where to begin to describe how lovely the writing is ? I could say its the kind of descriptions that had me rereading sentences, paragraphs just to experience them again. I could say how captivating the stories are, not connected in the sense of recurring characters or story line, but by something s......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader

What a stunning collection of short stories capturing loss, those who “disappear” in various ways, and hope for the future. In twelve short stories and a novella, Tara Lynn Masih has penned her most exquisite work yet. My favorite story was Bird man, about a trip an American woman takes to visit her......more

Quotes

“Six talented narrators work together to deliver these immersive short stories, which explore the lasting effect of absence or disappearance upon people’s lives.” AudioFile

“From American fables to ghost stories…a collection that is equally cohesive as it is explorative.” October Hill Magazine

“Far-ranging yet intimate stories.” Lit Pub

“Engaging, entertaining, original, thought-provoking…and unreservedly recommended.” Midwest Book Review

“Characters that manage to feel unique and yet familiar at the same time and settings so full of sensory details they become characters in themselves. This fine collection is a worthy addition to any bookshelf.” Southern Literary Review

“Each story is its own richly detailed, mesmerizing world.” Small Press Picks

“Explores the inevitability and necessity of change and how even the most fleeting of moments are never truly forgotten, in this mesmerizing collection of short stories.” Booklist

“Centered on the theme of disappearance…a beautiful and carefully written work that deftly searches below the surface…Luminous tales set in evocative environments that explore how remarkable people can fade away.” Kirkus Reviews

“Explores the aching presence of the absent and the absence of those present, in stories that read like instant classics.” Sara Lippmann, author of Doll Palace

“The breadth and diversity of the stories in How We Disappear illustrate the vast possibilities of human experience.” Phong Nguyen, author of Bronze Drum

Awards

  • Millions.com Pick
  • Florida Book Award
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