
Sycamore
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Cassandra Campbell
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Steven Jay Cohen
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Sara Morsey
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Xe Sands
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Teri Schnaubelt
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By:
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Bryn Chancellor
An award-winning writer makes her debut with this mesmerizing must-listen in the spirit of Everything I Never Told You and Olive Kitteridge.
Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some 18 years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted it ever since. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit Jess' troubled history. In resurrecting the past, the people of Sycamore will find clarity, unexpected possibility, and a way forward for their lives.
Skillfully interweaving multiple points of view, Bryn Chancellor knowingly maps the bloodlines of a community and the indelible characters at its heart - most notably Jess Winters, a thoughtful, promising adolescent poised on the threshold of adulthood. Evocative and atmospheric, Sycamore is a coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a moving exploration of the elemental forces that drive human nature - desire, loneliness, grief, love, forgiveness, and hope - as witnessed through the inhabitants of one small Arizona town.
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Critic reviews
Moving story, beautifully written
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Complex and thought-provoking
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Good story but too drawn out
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Excellent!
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Good book.
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I enjoyed it tremendously!
LISTEN! You won't be disappointed!
Enjoy,
Excellent!
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I had trouble keeping the characters voices separate, but that may have been my listening hapbits. Since I live in the novel's setting a few local words mispronouced stung. Setting: I was in the town of Clarkdale/Sycamore today and wished there had been a college. The town would have been a perfect setting for a small private college after the mining company left.
Perfect pacing...
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Wonderful read...
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Ok story, disliked narration
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Too many characters, not enough progress
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