Format:
Eaudiobook, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Read-along, Electronic Resources
Title:
The year we left home [electronic resource] / Jean Thompson.
Author:
Thompson, Jean, 1950-
Call Number:
Audio eBook
Web Site:
Web Link Available online.
Publisher, Date:
[Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2011.
Description:
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Summary:
Bookended by two wars--Vietnam and Iraq--The year we left home sketches the travails of an Iowa family over three decades. The novel opens as oldest daughter Anita, the beauty of the family, celebrates her marriage. Over the years, however, Anita confronts dissatisfaction with herself and disillusionment with her pompous husband. Her younger brother, Ryan, a high school senior as the novel opens, longs to escape his rural roots, dating a hippie poet and majoring in political science before realizing that the farmers who came before him might hold more relevance than he'd imagined. Cousin Chip comes back from Vietnam troubled and aimless, his wanderings from Seattle to Reno, Nev., to Veracruz, Mexico, offering a parallel to the spiritual restlessness all the other characters feel.
Subjects:
Families -- United States -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
National characteristics, American -- Fiction.
FICTION -- General.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Downloadable audio books.
Audiobooks.
Other Author:
Campbell, Cassandra.
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
ISBN:
9781441786074 (electronic audio bk.)
1441786074 (electronic audio bk.)