
To the Bridge
A True Story of Motherhood and Murder
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Narrated by:
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Nancy Rommelmann
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By:
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Nancy Rommelmann
The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children?
On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River. Forty minutes later, rescuers found the body of four-year-old Eldon. Miraculously, his seven-year-old sister, Trinity, was saved. As the public cried out for blood, Amanda was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison.
Embarking on a seven-year quest for the truth, Rommelmann traced the roots of Amanda’s fury and desperation through thousands of pages of records, withheld documents, meetings with lawyers and convicts, and interviews with friends and family who felt shocked, confused, and emotionally swindled by a woman whose entire life was now defined by an unspeakable crime. At the heart of that crime: a tempestuous marriage, a family on the fast track to self-destruction, and a myriad of secrets and lies as dark and turbulent as the Willamette River.
Excerpt from Day Out of Days: Stories, by Sam Shepard, © 2010 by Sam Shepard. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Excerpt from Netherland: A Novel, by Joseph O’Neill, © 2008 by Joseph O’Neill. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Excerpt from Iphigenia in Forest Hills, by Janet Malcolm, © 2011 by Janet Malcolm. Used by permission of Yale University Press. Excerpt from Down City, by Leah Carroll, © 2017 by Leah Carroll. Used by permission of Hachette Book Group USA.
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Editorial Review
Mother-child murder is not always what it seems Great true crime transcends the basic story it is telling by shedding light on the darkest sides of our human nature. To the Bridge succeeds in that endeavor many times over. This story is absolutely not for the faint of heart; it's a tearjerker, and while the tagline on the cover of this audiobook reads "A True Story of Motherhood and Murder," I only believe half of that to be true. It is absolutely a story of murder, but chalking this up to a failure of a mother alone—regardless of the tragic fact that she threw both of her children off an Oregon bridge—is to only tell half of the story; a story in which both parents failed to meet their obligations to their children, and in the end, created a toxic environment that led to the downfall of a family. —Kyle S., Audible Editor
JUST SAD
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Different than expected
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Very interesting!
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Audio Inappropriate
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The subject matter is difficult, period.
I didn’t like the book for a few reasons. First, it excessively & unnecessarily jumps back and forth in time and across characters. Second, the author inserts too much of her opinion & value judgments throughout, which, in my mind, detracts from her storytelling.
It took me about an hour to get used to the narrator (the author). She had an uneven speaking style, often rushing through parts of the sentence. While I usually prefer the author as the narrator, in this case it detracts from her writing.
Difficult subject matter; not a fan of the writing style nor narration
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I wish authors would not try to narrate their books.....
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Sad
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brings some explanation to an incomprehensible act
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Ok...not really for me
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Great book, but don’t like the narrating.
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