
Excavations
A Novel
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Joy Nash
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By:
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Kate Myers
**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER**
BEST SUMMER READS OF 2023: The New York Post • Oprah Book Club • Oprah Daily • USA Today • Good Housekeeping • Brit + Co • The Good Trade • Parade • Zibby Mag • O Quaterly
“Funny, smart and deeply delicious.”—Amy Poehler • “Witty and acerbic, Myers’ debut is humorous and sharply written, as if Aubrey Plaza’s April Ludgate from Parks and Recreation decided to write a sun-drenched novel about feminism, friendship, and archeology.”—Booklist
On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an unusual artifact. It’s a piece of history that definitely shouldn’t exist. And for the head archaeologist in charge, a relic himself, it means something’s gone horribly wrong.
Elise, Kara, Z and Patty all find themselves digging here together, but they couldn’t be farther apart. Kara’s a polished conservator calling off her wedding. Patty and her bowl cut are desperate for love. Millennial Z just got dumped and fired yet again. And Elise, their star excavator, is a lone wolf about to go rogue.
To figure out what they’re really digging for, and to topple the man who wants to hide their history, these dirt-crusted colleagues have to become what they’ve avoided for years—friends. If they put their own messes aside for one summer, they might just make the discovery of a lifetime.
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Slow start
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made me feel like I was there, again
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Trust me when I say you won't regret reading this one!
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Just fine. Predictable.
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Mini spoilers below.
Though it might not pass the Bechdel test, the women in the novel all show their strength (and foibles) in a different way as they work to topple academia’s most lauded and controlling person, the old, white man.
Having been an MA & PhD student myself, I could relate to these strong women. The UGs (what a great name, wish I would have thought about it when I was in graduate school) were one blob of a character and the leading professor on the dig could make or break anyone’s academic career with just a word. I truly felt for the women who wouldn’t say anything for fear of their future. I lived that position.
I loved that as they unearthed Victor, she became one of the women’s voices, tying together past and present, both generations just wanting to be seen and recognized for their worth.
Speaking of voices, the narrator was great. She really gave each woman a distinctive voice that matched their personality, and she’s good at accents too!
I liked this book so much I might listen to it again!
Women rising from the earth
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Great story
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Book club worthy!!!
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Almost…
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Archeologists are people too
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I couldn’t keep up with each woman character from chapter to chapter because they all sounded the same, with exception of the Aussie girl who had the very worst Australian accent I’ve ever heard.
This story should’ve been done with several different narrators. There are a lot of characters, and unless you have an amazingly skilled reader, the story is lost. This narrator is not only not skilled, but not even listenable. It’s sad, this story might be the greatest but I’ll never know it.i
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