Olivay, Deborah Reed
Olivay, Deborah Reed
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Olivay

Author: Deborah Reed

Narrator: Angela Dawe

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/07/2015

Synopsis

We don’t believe that our lives can change in an instant—until they do.Olivay, widowed for a year and sleepwalking through life, meets Henry by chance. She takes him to her Los Angeles loft, thinking it will just be for the night. But the following morning, bombs detonate across the city, and she and Henry are trapped together. Henry is skittish, solicitous, and strangely distracted. Who is this man she’s marooned with as the city goes on lockdown? Why is she catching him in lie after lie? Is he somehow connected to her husband’s death and the terrorist attacks outside?With eloquent and suspenseful prose, Olivay explores the wreckage of loss and the collision of grief, desire, and terror in its aftermath. As the characters get pushed outside their comfort zones, forced to walk the thin line between destruction and salvation, Olivay keeps readers guessing what will become of Olivay and Henry until the very end.

About Deborah Reed

Deborah Reed’s novel Things We Set on Fire sold more than one hundred thousand copies in its first six months, while Carry Yourself Back to Me was a Best Book of 2011 Amazon Editors’ Pick. She wrote the bestselling thriller A Small Fortune and its sequel, Fortune’s Deadly Descent, under her pen name Audrey Braun. Several of her novels have been translated or are forthcoming in German. Her nonfiction has appeared in publications such as the Literarian, MORE, and Poets & Writers. She holds a master of fine arts degree in creative writing, and teaches at the UCLA Extension Writing Program. She is also codirector of the Black Forest Writing Seminar at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She resides in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maxine on March 24, 2016

This book was like nothing I had read in a while, after reading the synopsis I moved this to the top of my reading pile. It was a very unique read and possibly not for everybody. The prose is stunning and the underlying tension throughout the book kept me on my toes. It's not a super fast paced book,......more

Goodreads review by Liz on May 17, 2015

Seriously, I don't know how I feel about this book. It is strange and yet beautiful, absolutely compelling but slowly drawn out - there is a wonderful poetry to the prose and an odd underlying tension throughout. It gripped me utterly, I started it this morning and here I am done. And yet I do not n......more

Goodreads review by Kim on July 14, 2015

I stumbled upon Deoborah Reed’s Olivay thanks to fellow writer and Matera brainstormer, S.G. Redling. A few days ago, she mentioned it in a Facebook post, and it caught my eye. I loved the premise: a woman, widowed one year, brings home a stranger and spends the night with him–the next day bombs exp......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on April 07, 2015

"So what's your story here, kid? When are you going to get to the point?" This is a quote near the end of the novel, and pretty much sums up how I felt about the entire book. I felt the novel started strong: the premise of a woman grieving the inexplicable loss of her husband undergoes another trauma......more

Goodreads review by Pavitra on July 10, 2015

The review was first posted on For The Love of Fictional Worlds as part of the Blog Tour hosted by TLC Book Tours. "For all the times she'd wanted to die, she now understood how badly she wanted to live." A year ago, Olivay, was was married content if not happy. She was working as an architect, in lov......more

Quotes

“Deborah’s writing is complex, layered, diverse, and, much like the writer herself, a bit paradoxical. Just when you think you’ve got a handle on what’s happening, everything falls out from under you…At times, her works seem reminiscent of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone or Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine…Her characters are complicated and flawed, but that’s precisely what makes them real, likable, and human.” –VICE magazine

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