
Shell Game
Getaway Collection
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Narrated by:
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Fajer Al-Kaisi
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By:
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Rumaan Alam
2023 Audie Award Winner for Best Short Stories/Collection Audiobook
An extended family’s Cape Cod vacation reveals uncomfortable truths that threaten one man’s illusion of happiness in this incisive short story by the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind.
Mark has a wife and two kids, a sense of purpose, financial security, and a fragile contentment. However wistful his visions of the future, Mark knows who he is. But a summer trip with his abrasive brother-in-law and unhappy sister-in-law leave Mark questioning everything he thinks he knows about his family—and himself.
Shell Game by Rumaan Alam is part of Getaway, a collection of six stories about dream escapes that take unimaginable, even sinister, turns. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single sitting.
©2022 Rumaan Alam. (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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28 pages Kindle story starts on 3
53m narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi
Getaway Collection #6
Genre: Short Stories
Featuring: Cape Cod, Twins, Family Vacation
Rating as a movie: R
My rating: ⭐️¾
My thoughts: There was no point to this story and no reason for its ending directionless plot. This is the weakest of the collection and the only one written by a man, that's not how you end a short story collection. It's not even literary fiction because the characters lacked depth.
Recommend to others?: No. This was a waste of a good setting.
Waste of Time!!!
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It missed the mark
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dynamics from a father/husband/brother-in-law's perspective. The ending is jarring though as we go from a normal family vacation to a stark and apparent sad scene in the future, I wish there was more and I would have listened much longer. The narrator did awesome, and I chuckled a couple times at his frankness. This wasn't a thriller or super suspenseful, just wondering when something big will happen (it doesn't), a single perspective into the human condition and family dynamics. It made me sad though how inconsequential it makes being a human going about their life seem.
Family Dynamics
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It was this last part, how this book could have been the typical life of any neighbor's life story, that is what intrigued me most. It's fascinating how we go through our daily routine and without ever really knowing the people neighbors, relatives, often those that live with us, and even there are times we don't fully know our own self.
This book brings all this out in a strange family dynamic that could exist in any family.
Best description is thought provoking.
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Not worth the time
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Jarring and real
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No plot
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