Threats, Amelia Gray
Threats, Amelia Gray
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Threats

Author: Amelia Gray

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/28/2012

Synopsis

David’s wife is dead—at least, he thinks she’s dead—but he can’t figure out what killed her or why she had to die. His efforts to sort out what’s happened have been interrupted by his discovery of a series of elaborate and escalating threats hidden in strange places around his home—one buried in the sugar bag, another carved into the side of his television. These disturbing threats may be the best clues to his wife’s death:CURL UP ON MY LAP. LET ME BRUSH YOUR HAIR WITH MY FINGERS. I AM SINGING YOU A LULLABY. I AM TESTING FOR STRUCTURAL WEAKNESS IN YOUR SKULL.Detective Chico is also on the case and is intent on asking David questions he doesn’t know the answers to and introducing him to people who don’t appear to have David’s or his wife’s best interests in mind. With no one to trust, David is forced to rely on his own memories and faculties—but they too are proving unreliable.In Threats, Amelia Gray builds a world that is bizarre yet familiar, violent yet tender. It is an electrifying story of love and loss that grabs you on the first page and never loosens its grip.

About Amelia Gray

Amelia Gray is the author of several books, including Isadora, AM/PM, Museum of the Weird, Threats, and Gutshot. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and VICE. She has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and is the winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest.

About Hillary Huber

"Hillary has recorded close to 700 audiobooks spanning many genres.  She is a multiple Audie Award finalist, multiple Earphone Award winner, Voice Arts Awards winner and one of Audiofile Magazine's best voices.  Hillary has a BA in English Literature and is a voracious reader and listener.  Likes: yoga, hip hop dancing, baking sourdough, bourbon. Dislikes: liver. Raised in conservative Connecticut and hippy Hawaii, Hillary now splits her time between Santa Monica and New York.   Most of that time is in a 4x4 padded room. Er...booth. Her superpower is reciting the alphabet backwards. Created with WordToHTML.net trial."

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on July 12, 2018

"we all go a little mad sometimes" this book kicked my ass. i do not recommend reading it if you have any sort of sad feelings already at work inside of you. or if you are in any way mentally/emotionally compromised. this is not the kind of book you want to find yourself relating to, trust me. on the......more

Goodreads review by Joshua Nomen-Mutatio on March 02, 2012

"EVERYTHING GAINS SIGNIFICANCE WHEN YOU PUT IT UP ON AN ALTAR" (274) Amelia Gray's sentences are altars, propping up objects and moments and sensations. This tongue-tyingly beautiful novel—while threaded with a smooth, albeit mysterious, narrative and a small spot-lit bundle of characters—is truly th......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on August 24, 2023

This is going to be a hard book to recommend. I think if you liked The Grip Of It by Jac Jemc, or really any other FSG/MCD published book (Tinfoil Butterfly, This Thing Between Us, Annihilation, String Follow), you’ll probably like this. It’s about a man who’s wife who died, or maybe she didn’t, but......more

Quotes

“Gray is a standout in the crowded field of ambitious young writers with edgy tastes…Now she’s poised to move into the literary mainstream with Threats.” Los Angeles Times

“Mysteries abound in Amelia’s Gray’s intriguing debut novel…But this is no thriller. Instead, it’s a surreal, darkly comic portrait of a man’s mental unraveling, all seen through David’s unstable gaze.” Entertainment Weekly

“Gradually, as with any good detective novel, the pieces come together. What would have seemed gimmicky in the hands of a less skilled writer becomes a cunning whodunit with Gray at the reins…An innovative debut novel.”  Publishers Weekly

“A striking debut novel from a writer eager to shake domestic fiction out of its comfort zone.” Kirkus Reviews

“The first time I encountered Amelia Gray’s fiction, it slugged me in the jaw. The second time, too, and the third. Said jaw-slugging has ensued nearly every time I’ve read something of hers, except for when instead it whispered sad and surprising but undeniable truths about the difficulty of intimacy and sense in the wretched blastoscape of modern life. And then it made me a grilled cheese sandwich to prove that the world can be a kind place, and it waited until I had sated myself and wiped away the crumbs before slugging me in the jaw again.” Doug Dorst, author of Alive in Necropolis

“Amelia Gray is a sharpshooter, precise and deadly. Threats lures the reader with its poetic sensibilities and then subverts every expectation. Before long, there will be statues of Gray in various corners of the literary world.” Emma Straub, author of Other People We Married

“Reading Amelia Gray is like a pyramid of rocks being built on a cloud. That’s to say, it’s something fantastical, dreamlike, playful, and very dangerous. You will be amazed at what this writer can do.” Shane Jones, author of Light Boxes

Awards

  • Amazon Top 100 Book
  • PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
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