Brood
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Rebecca Lowman
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Jackie Polzin
About this listen
An exquisite new literary voice - wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout - depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss.
“Full of nuance and humor and strangeness … [Polzin] writes beautifully about everything.” (The New York Times)
Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the 40-below nights of a brutal Minnesota winter to a sweltering summer which brings a surprise tornado, she battles predators, bad luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she always imagined.
Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel is filled with wisdom, sorrow, and joy. As the year unfolds, we come to know the small band of loved ones who comprise the narrator's circumscribed life at this moment. Her mother, a flinty former home-ec teacher who may have to take over the chickens; her best friend, a real estate agent with a burgeoning family of her own; and her husband, whose own coping mechanisms for dealing with the miscarriage that haunts his wife are more than a little unfathomable to her.
A stunning and brilliantly insightful meditation on life and longing that will stand beside such modern classics as H is for Hawk and Gilead, Brood rewards its listeners with the richness of reflection and unrelenting hope.
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Critic reviews
2022, American Academy of Arts and Letters Lit. Award
2022, Art Seidenbaum Award
2021, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
“You will love this book…The voice is wry and rare…As with Sigrid Nunez or Jenny Offill, one feels that the narrator of Brood is very close to the author.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Wondrous…Her observation of the fragility and loveliness of daily life is so sharp and her commentary so droll, trenchant and precise, that the modest world she describes becomes almost numinous.” —Washington Post
"A debut novel about chickens? Yes, indeed. And it's full of nuance and humor, not to mention the very human travails of their grieving owner. Polzin has a gift for detail and an eye for the way little creatures can absorb and sometimes erase our worries." —New York Times Book Review
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Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Just as she’s finishing the book tour for her latest bestseller, Dana is asked to join the church search committee for a new minister. Under pressure to find her next book idea, she agrees, and resolves to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes, about the experience. That memoir, Search, follows the travails of the committee and their candidates—and becomes its own media sensation.
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Children Acting Out
- By Elaine Richards on 10-02-22
By: Michelle Huneven
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A Million Things
- By: Emily Spurr
- Narrated by: Zenia Starr
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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For as long as Rae can remember, it's been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable family. They have their walks, their cooking routines, their home. Sometimes Mum disappears for a while to clear her head, but Rae is okay with this because Mum always comes back. So, when Rae wakes to Splinter's nose in her face, the back door open, and no Mum, she does as she’s always done and carries on. She tends to the house, goes to school, walks Splinter, and minds her own business - all the while pushing down the truth she isn't ready to face.
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Beautiful and heartbreaking
- By Amazon Customer on 09-04-21
By: Emily Spurr
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The Narrowboat Summer
- By: Anne Youngson
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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From the author of Meet Me at the Museum, a charming novel of second chances, about three women, one dog, and the narrowboat that brings them together. Eve expected Sally to come festooned with suitcases and overnight bags packed with everything she owned, but she was wrong. She arrived on foot, with a rucksack and a carrier bag. “I just walked away,” she said, climbing on to the boat. Eve knew what she meant.
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Feel good and a good story, too
- By Cracker1951 on 06-16-21
By: Anne Youngson
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Summerwater
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- By: Sarah Moss
- Narrated by: Morven Christie
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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They rarely speak to each other, but they take notice - watching from the safety of their cabins, peering into the half-lit drizzle of a Scottish summer day, making judgments from what little they know of their temporary neighbors. On the longest day of the year, the hours pass nearly imperceptibly as twelve people go from being strangers to bystanders to allies, their attention forced into action as tragedy sneaks into their lives.
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Beautifully written and beautifully read.
- By Susan on 01-30-21
By: Sarah Moss
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Real Life
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- By: Brandon Taylor
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness.
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Not My Gay Real Life
- By Haynes on 02-29-20
By: Brandon Taylor
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Shiner
- A Novel
- By: Amy Jo Burns
- Narrated by: Catherine Taber
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, 15-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station. But over the course of one summer, a miracle performed by Wren's father quickly turns to tragedy. As the order of her world begins to shatter, Wren must uncover the truth of her father's mysterious legend and her mother's harrowing history and complex bond with her best friend.
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Victim complexes extraordinaire
- By Dora on 08-21-20
By: Amy Jo Burns
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The Perfect Son
- By: Lauren North
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When Tess Clarke wakes up in the hospital the day after her son Jamie's eighth birthday, she's sure of these things: She's been stabbed, her son is missing, her brother-in-law and her grief counselor are involved. But no one is listening to her. After her husband, Mark, died suddenly in a terrible accident a few months earlier, the only thing keeping Tess together is Jamie. But there in the hospital, confused and surrounded by people who won't listen, Tess’s world falls apart. To save her son, she must piece together what happened.
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Really creepy...
- By Kelly on 09-02-19
By: Lauren North
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The Gifted School
- A Novel
- By: Bruce Holsinger
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies.
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Brilliant story AND Narration
- By AudreyLM on 07-05-19
By: Bruce Holsinger
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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
- By: Kim Fu
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Samara Naeymi, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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In the 12 unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: A group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time; an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman.
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Masterfully Original and Compelling
- By Georgia Moir on 02-04-22
By: Kim Fu
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Ashton Hall
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Belfer
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal.
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This is a difficult book to review
- By lil tate on 07-17-22
By: Lauren Belfer
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The White Coat Diaries
- By: Madi Sinha
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Having spent the last 20-something years with her nose in a textbook, brilliant and driven Norah Kapadia has just landed the medical residency of her dreams. But after a disastrous first day, she's ready to quit. Disgruntled patients, sleep deprivation, and her duty to be the "perfect Indian daughter" have her questioning her future as a doctor.
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Suspenseful and excellent
- By jodiod on 03-31-24
By: Madi Sinha
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The Sharon Creech Audio Collection
- By: Sharon Creech
- Narrated by: Scott Wolf, Brittany Pressley, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech is a master of both prose and verse. Her standout tales are full of love, friendship, and what it means to be kid figuring out who you are. Enjoy this audio exclusive collection of four of her best-loved novels!
By: Sharon Creech
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Look How Happy I'm Making You
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- By: Polly Rosenwaike
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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A candid, ultimately buoyant debut story collection about the realities of the "baby years", whether you're having one or not.
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Didn’t make me happy
- By Amazon Customer on 08-31-19
By: Polly Rosenwaike
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- Sandy
- 08-25-22
A metaphor on life
This story takes the skill and enjoyment of raising suburban chickens with the hope for a child to raise.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-09-22
Small Town Wonderful
Knowing the author's mother, being from the author's hometown, and owning chickens of my own made this even more spot on. The descriptions of chicken behaviors, of an egg, of losing one of the brood, of a marriage, and of infertility were each well studied and described with comforting detail.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-06-21
Brood
A humorous book about a couple raising chickens. I totally enjoyed the book but found the narration of the audio book to be flat and at times monotone. However if you are looking for a short book to listen to that has a good mix of humor and information on urban chicken farming, you’ll likely enjoy the book.
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- MoJava
- 05-16-23
Beautifully Written and Intriguing
The author’s phrasing and word choice are lovely. The humor is subtle. Ultimately this is a highly pastoral work. Likely not for everyone but I am glad to have experienced it.
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- StJohn
- 03-29-21
Refreshing....
A simple sweet story about a woman, her husband, and her much loved chickens. Every day things, life as it is. I enjoyed how uncomplicated this story is. You feel the beauty in just the movement through and feelings of a regular, or not so regular, day. If you’re from MN, like I am, you’ll recognize some of the places mentioned. ❤️
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- Xine Segalas
- 05-04-22
Life, Death and Chickens
I really enjoyed listening to Brood by Jackie Polzin and narrated by Rebecca Lowman. Brood is more than a story about a woman's experience with her four chickens. At the core, this is a book about loss and grief. So from that perspective, the book has a depth that some may not be able to fully relate to.
Despite the sadness that the reader can hear in the author's voice, there is humor in the story. Where there are chickens, there is usually something to laugh and smile about. I have four chickens of my own just like the author, so I can relate to her experiences with them. I learned a few new things too which as a chicken owner is always helpful. Much like parenthood, I had no idea what to expect from raising chickens, so also like parenthood, it's helpful to see how others do things.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has chickens, loves animals, or is interested in a quick good read.
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- Katy's Mom
- 01-07-23
Brood: an appropriate name
I guess this was a novel although it was written as a memoir. The narrator was rather depressed and did a lot of brooding. I can forgive her that over the loss of a child. However, being a chicken keeper with my own backyard flock I was appalled at the lack of knowledge about chicken care that was apparent in this book. It overrides what at times was lovely, lyrical prose. I ordered this book because I thought it was a realistic story about a woman’s life with her chickens. I was mistaken.
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- Palo Verde
- 03-15-23
Not For Me
This is the most negative story I've ever read, not one positive bit of sunshine in the whole book. I don't like any of the characters...and it's nonfiction!
Where's the humor cited in the publishers blurb...there isn't any. Nothing is funny!
I can't recommend it.
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