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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

A Novel

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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

By: Alison Espach
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
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2022 NPR Best Book of the Year, Long-listed

“Once I began listening to Jesse Vilinksy's excellent narration I was immediately swept up in the story.” – Anne Bogel, Modern Ms. Darcy

From Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editor’s Choice novel The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for listeners of Ask Again, Yes and Tell the Wolves I’m Home.

For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of Sally’s questions about life, about love, and about Billy Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the concession stand at the town pool. The girls have been fascinated by Billy ever since he jumped off the roof in elementary school, but Billy has never shown much interest in them until the summer before Sally begins eighth grade. By then, their mutual infatuation with Billy is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. Sally spends much of that summer at the pool, watching in confusion and excitement as her sister falls deeper in love with Billy—until a tragedy leaves Sally’s life forever intertwined with his.

Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared history and missed connections, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is both a breathtaking love story about two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other and a wryly astute coming-of-age tale brimming with unexpected moments of joy.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

©2022 Alison Espach (P)2022 Macmillan Audio
Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Summer Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Disappearance
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Heartfelt Story • Gripping Love Story • Great Narration • Unique Writing • Excellent Performance • Right Tone
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This story lacks a lot… but has such potential which is why I stuck it out with hopes of a payoff. Spoiler, it never comes.
My advice is if you decide to listen to this, make it a drinking game every time the word “said” is used, you’ll be trashed in no time for a week straight!
The word “said” was obviously a conscious stylistic decision on the author’s part, it didn’t work.

I Can’t Believe I Made It To The End…ughhhh

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It was so good for a while, but once you get closer to the end the story takes a weird turn, that I was hoping it wouldn't. the prlerformance was good, but there were times that I think the inflection was misleading. Overall it was a alright book, but man that last minute turn really ruined it for me.

kind of a weird turn

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The narrator was great. I didn’t want the story to end. The characters were so relatable.

Excellent !!

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The way the narrator reads the “…said” ruins the entire book. I couldn’t finish it

Mom said, dad said, Billy said

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Beautifully written but so enduringly sad. It was uncomfortable being in the depression and hurt for so much of the novel.

Too dark for me

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Good story line making listening enjoyable. Would have been nice to have different voices rather than just one.

Good read

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The writer understands greif and how it changes who you are, changes the family dynamic and writes about the feelings in a visceral way. I loved this probably because of personal experience.

Grief Changes Everything

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I feel like lately it’s hard to find a book worthy of a credit. This book took a common topic and spun it into something new with dynamic characters and written uniquely and beautifully. I loved it. The narration was flawless!

Great performance and beautifully written

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The author kept me riveted the entire time until the last word. This is a great listen and definitely worth the 1 credit to purchase.

Great!

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This one took me a long time to get through. And I typically run through books in a matter of days. It was a cute little storyline.

It was okay.

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