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Narrated by:
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Rebecca Soler
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By:
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Sarah Dessen
About this listen
From the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Rest of the Story comes a powerful novel about loss, love, and moving on.
Nothing is going as planned for Macy this summer.
Not the job at Wish Catering, and definitely not Wes.
But Macy soon discovers that the things you expect least are sometimes the things you need most.
"Dessen gracefully balances comedy with tragedy and introduces a complex heroine worth getting to know." (Publishers Weekly)
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Sarah Dessen Is The Best YA Author
- By Kelsee Gorbet on 07-18-24
By: Sarah Dessen
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Keeping the Moon
- By: Sarah Dessen
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Story
While her mother, aerobics queen Kiki Sparks, spends the summer touring Europe, 15-year-old Colie Sparks is stuck in sleepy Colby, North Carolina. But she's not complaining. For one thing, her Aunt Mira is a sweet, laid-back eccentric; for another, no one knows that back home in Charlotte Colie is seen as a formerly-fat "golf-course slut," the school scapegoat. Then, by fate or by accident, Colie lands a waitressing job, where she meets Morgan and Isabel.
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It's not the complete book. Save your money
- By Cecilb on 11-26-09
By: Sarah Dessen
My favorite
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my favorite author, my favorite book
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I liked the characters! I picked this book because I enjoy listening to the narrator Rebecca Soler.
It was a good choice ,now I am listening to another by this author. Its called The rest of the Story.
Its not nearly as good as this book.
Good
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Nostalgia
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The story kept me going.
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A book about love nah about death
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It had been so long since I had read this, that it was almost like reading for the first time, especially listening/reading it from an adult perspective and reading it with my daughter, who is not quite a teen yet.
It struck me how the comic relief really balances out the story and keeps it from getting too heavy. this really helps to carry the themes of friendship, love, loss, control, allowing yourself to be happy even when it scares you, seeing things from the perspective of your loved ones even when it feels like they are hurting you. All of these are things that young people deal with and would benefit from learning and working through them at a young age.
The many different perspectives she uses, the way she helps you feel all the feelings and gives opportunities for belly laughs along the way really keeps the subject matter from getting too overwhelming.
I know it meant so much to me to hear my daughter belly laughing in the backseat of the car on the way to her swim class. I love that something that meant so much to me and held so much pain for me as a kid is just a "soap opera for kids" according to her, yet is still teaching her good lessons. I look forward to reading it with her again as a teenager and seeing how her perspective changes.
I don't remember the name of the narrator but she really brought the story to life for me. I have a hard time paying attention long enough to get into books but she drew me in right away, and her impressions of the characters were impressive and convincing!
Reading this again as an adult...
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Still my favorite author
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New Dessen Fan
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Great book, bad performer
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