
Guests on Earth
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Narrated by:
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Emily Woo Zeller
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By:
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Lee Smith
When she is thirteen years old, Evalina Toussaint, the orphaned child of an exotic dancer in New Orleans, is admitted as a mental patient to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. The year is 1936, and the hospital, under the direction of celebrity psychiatrist Robert S. Carroll, is famous for its up-to-the-minute shock therapies and for Dr. Carroll's revolutionary theory of the benefits of non-introspection.
Evalina finds herself in the midst of a kaleidoscope of characters, including the estranged wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Her role as accompanist for all theatricals and programs at the hospital gives her privileged insight into the events that transpire over the twelve years leading up to a tragic 1948 fire - its mystery unsolved to this day - that killed nine women in a locked ward on the top floor, including Zelda.
In Evalina Toussaint, Lee Smith has a created a narrator whose story is one of unstoppable and defiant introspection. At the risk of Dr. Carroll's ire and at all costs, Evalina listens, observes, delves, pursues, accompanies, remembers - and tells us everything. This is her wildly prescient story about a time and a place where creativity and passion, theory and medicine, fact and fiction are luminously intertwined.
©2013 Lee Smith. Recorded by arrangement with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing Company, Inc. (P)2013 HighBridge CompanyListeners also enjoyed...




















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Where does Guests on Earth rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Somewhere in the middle, good story, wonderful charactersWhat was one of the most memorable moments of Guests on Earth?
The description of shows performed by patientsWould you listen to another book narrated by Emily Woo Zeller?
Depends on if the story has any old songsWas there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When she described having and losing her babyAny additional comments?
Whenever lyrics were used for old classic southern songs, there was a hiccup in the narration. With just a little research, the narrator could have used the actual tune or at least the proper rhythm of the song. Very disappointing! The songs could have been a big part of the story.Great old southern songs butchered
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Rather Disjointed
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Lee Smith does it again.
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The story lags,
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Typical Lee Smith Excellence
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A well told story about mental illness, zelda fitzgerald and Asheville North Carolina
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Entertaining
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The story is wonderfully written. However, the narrator has a terrible and distracting Scottish accent for one of the characters. It comes across as this jarring cross between Irish and Russian. Really distracting. Luckily this character does not talk much.Great story!
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Great book
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A book I will long remember
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