Vanished, Karin LinGreenberg
Vanished, Karin LinGreenberg
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Vanished
Stories

Author: Karin Lin-Greenberg

Narrator: Hillary Huber, Stacey Glemboski, Erica Sullivan, Emily Lawrence, Erin Bennett, Jane Oppenheimer, Xe Sands, Kyla Garcia, various narrators, Taylor Meskimen

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2022

Categories: Fiction, Women, Short Stories


Synopsis

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them.The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers into her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past.Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life; each deals with something or someone who has vanished—a person close to her, a friendship, a relationship—as she seeks to make sense of the world around her in the wake of that loss.

About Karin Lin-Greenberg

Karin Lin-Greenberg is the author of the story collection Faulty Predictions, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, the Southern Review, and the Chicago Tribune.

About Hillary Huber

Hillary Huber is one of the most successful voice talents in Los Angeles. Recent books read for Blackstone Audio include Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him by Patricia Marx, A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read, and A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart.

About Stacey Glemboski

Stacey Glemboski is a seasoned voice artist and audiobook narrator of many books in the science fiction and young adult fiction genres.

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 Emily Lawrence

Emily Lawrence, an actor and writer, is passionate about bringing stories to life. She has narrated more than 425 audiobooks, many of which were USA Today or New York Times bestsellers, and has also worked in film, television, and theater.

About Erin Bennett

Erin Bennett is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress who played Carlie Roberts in the BBC radio drama Torchwood: Submission. She can be heard on several video games. Regional theater appearances include the Intiman, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, and the Getty Villa. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

About Jane Oppenheimer

Jane Oppenheimer is an experienced narrator, voiceover artist, and actress with a bachelor's degree in theater from Carnegie Mellon University. She has narrated numerous audiobooks and has performed on stage in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Her voiceover work can be heard on commercials as well as corporate campaigns and short documentaries.

About Xe Sands

Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art, including recordings of the Nightwalkers series from Jaquelyn Frank. She has received several honors, including AudioFile Earphones Awards and a coveted Audie Award, and she was named Favorite Debut Romance Narrator of 2011 in the Romance Audiobooks poll.

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 Taylor Meskimen

Taylor Meskimen is an actress and a narrator. Her audiobook readings include several L. Ron Hubbard novels, such as Gun Boss of Tumbleweed and Death Waits at Sundown.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Diane on July 01, 2017

Great! mystery,suspense and love in this storyline..then you get a well crafted plot and book by one of the best authors (paperback!)......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on May 14, 2016

Danielle Steel is the perfect example of someone who is a terrible writer but a gifted storyteller. She's a but of a guilty pleasure of mine, I've read far more of her books than I care to admit, and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. Becuase her books are so goddamn addictive. Every once in a wh......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on November 06, 2013

This book was so good. I felt so bad for Marielle...Your child drowning and then a miscarriage and THEN YOUR CHILD IS KIDNAPPED. You never get a break, do you? I have a couple more books by this author and I'm excited to jump into them :)......more

Goodreads review by Kaylyn on July 06, 2013

I loved this book because it was a quick read that grabbed your attention, regardless of it's predictability. But then again, most crime novels are like that. I, however, enjoyed it. I have a huge weak spot for crime novels. The plot itself was intricate but not to the point where you were aching fo......more

Goodreads review by Erica on August 30, 2013

My, how life can change overnight. This is my first Danielle Steel novel that i accidentally picked up to read while waiting for my son to get out of camp. I just couldn't put it down. I thought Marielle's life would never change for the better. It was like she had a black cloud hovering over her. S......more


Quotes

“In Lin-Greenberg’s superb collection, dramatic scenes play out between students and teachers…Flawless and insightful prose gives an acute sense of the characters’ perspectives as they change.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Vanished is peopled with characters who are bitter and funny and who do questionable things—and who are, as a result, imminently human, unquestioningly alive on the page. An engrossing and extraordinary book.” Nick White, author of Sweet and Low

“The human struggle for connection guides us through each story’s surprising world of art, pop culture, school, difficult relationships, and weird animals. I fell in love with these edgy, lost characters…Vanished is a celebration of our flawed humanity.” Erika Krouse, author of Tell Me Everything


Awards

  • Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize