The Untelling, Tayari Jones
The Untelling, Tayari Jones
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The Untelling

Author: Tayari Jones

Narrator: Michele Blackmon

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2008

Synopsis

Aria is no stranger to tragedy. Fifteen years ago, a family outing took the lives of her father and baby sister, leaving remaining members of this fractured family struggling with their own guilt—real and imagined. At twenty-five, Aria believes she can reinvent herself through her planned marriage with all its promise of a family of her own. Her infertility changes her life as swiftly and irrevocably as the urban landscape around her. With prose that is both eloquent and unflinching, Jones charts the emotional journey of her characters as they explore the painful territory of truth and the healing landscape of forgiveness.

About Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is the author of Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and An American Marriage. She holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa, and she serves on the MFA faculty at Rutgers.

About Michele Blackmon

Michele Blackmon has spent more than twenty-five years performing, directing, and teaching theater. As an actor, singer, and dancer she has performed in numerous stage productions in Seattle, Portland, Aspen, and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She has appeared in television commercials and corporate video projects, radio and voice-over projects, and she has performed in the Soviet Union as part of a cultural arts exchange.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara (NOT RECEIVING NOTIFICATIONS!)

I found Tayari Jones novel, “An American Marriage” amazing. Her prose, the story, just everything about it was great. When I saw “The Untelling” l had to get it. I chose the audio format, narrated by Michele Blackmon. Ms. Blackmon has a beautiful voice; it wasn’t the voice I would have chosen. I wou......more

Goodreads review by Kelis

Okay. So I've had some time to let the effects of having read this book wear off a bit. I feel that I'm ready to talk about it without revealing my soul here. Excuse me if I'm long-winded. This book connected some life-dots for me, so y'all bear with me. I've never read a novel that caused me to do......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge

Ariadne is nine years old when the family is in an automobile accident on the way to her dance recital. Her father and baby sister, Genevieve, die. Aria, her older sister, Hermione, and their mother survive. But all three carry serious emotional scars from the event. Now it is sixteen years later an......more

Quotes

“Poignant…powerful…startling…Tayari Jones reveals herself as one of the most important writers of her generation.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“The first-person narration is convincing and genuine, and Jones handles her material with sensitivity and sympathy.” Publishers Weekly

“Michelle Blackmon reads in soft, lush tones, expressing Aria’s passion for life and friendship. Blackmon plays with accents and stereotypes of African-Americans and whites in the South, adding spice and color to the narrative. Jones shapes this novel with sophisticated language and imagery that add dimension to the story.” AudioFile

“A delicate portrait of a young woman’s emotional fragility as she attempts to get over the greatest trauma of her life.” Booklist

“Teens will appreciate Ariadne’s dilemma as she wrestles first with the implications of a child out-of-wedlock and then the more difficult truth that she will never bear her own children.” School Library Journal

“Tayari Jones is a remarkable novelist, able to face down the tragedies of life with the clarity and beauty and even the dark humor of a true artist. And she has unerring storytelling instincts. The Untelling is a wonderful book and Tayari Jones is a flat-out brilliant writer.” Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

“The Untelling is the story of deep hurt and slow realization, injury and recovery, and the way people genuinely change their lives. I love it.” Dorothy Allison, author of Cavedweller

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