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Publication Date:  February 2, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   War, Vietnam War, Mystery Narrator:  Kevin Stillwell Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  13 hours 58 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison. Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the younger brother he hasn't known for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women. But the day turns ugly when the four encounter a prison transfer bus on a stretch of empty road....

Release Date:  May 1, 2018 Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours 41 minutes Narrator:  Rachel Kushner Genre:  Literary Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Review: I've had this book in my TBR pile for a while and decided to give it a go while I painted my living room.  I was so drawn into this book that there we...