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    St. Ivo
    St. Ivo
    St. Ivo
    Audiobook5 hours

    St. Ivo

    Written by Joanna Hershon

    Narrated by Joanna Hershon

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    About this audiobook

    Over the course of a weekend, two couples reckon with the long-hidden secrets that have shaped their
    families, in a charged, poignant novel of motherhood and friendship

    It’s the end of summer when we meet Sarah, the end of summer and the middle of her life, the middle of her career
    (she hopes it’s not the end), the middle of her marriage (recently repaired). And despite the years that have passed since
    she last saw her daughter, she is still very much in the middle of figuring out what happened to Leda, what role she
    played, and how she will let that loss affect the rest of her life.

    Enter a mysterious stranger on a train, an older man taking the subway to Brooklyn who sees right into her. Then
    a mugging, her phone stolen, and with it any last connection to Leda. And then an invitation, friends from the past
    and a weekend in the country with their new, unexpected baby.

    Over the course of three hot September days, the two couples try to reconnect. Events that have been set in
    motion, circumstances and feelings kept hidden, rise to the surface, forcing each to ask not just how they ended up
    where they are, but how they ended up who they are.

    Unwinding like a suspense novel, Joanna Hershon’s St. Ivo is a powerful investigation into the meaning of choice
    and family, whether we ever know the people closest to us, and how, when someone goes missing from our lives, we
    can ever let them go.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 14, 2020
    ISBN9781980063728
    St. Ivo

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    • 4/5
      In this gently sad but non-memorable novel, the reader knows that there's something amiss with Leda, daughter of blocked filmmaker Sarah and her husband Matthew. After a violent mugging outside their home, the couple leaves Brooklyn for upstate NY and a visit to their former neighbors Kiki and Arman and their new baby. Sarah immediately lies about Leda's status and encounters other visitors and some MAGA types during the time frame of one long weekend. The denouement about Leda isn't dramatic enough to have been woven throughout the narrative, nor are mysteries about Kiki and Arman and what Matthew's been withholding. A pleasant meander but that's about all there is here.
    • 4/5
      So, I finished this book and have been pondering over the last few days. Why, did I like this book so much and why does it continue to echo in my thoughts. There are no big action scenes, actually very little action action at all. I didn't especially like nor did I dislike the characters. Yet, this story drew me in, and kept me there.Two couples, once good friends attempt to reconcile when one of the couples has a young daughter. Twenty years have passed and when they knew each other before, the other couple had a young child. They arrive to spend the weekend together, both are hiding something from the other, and tension simmers due to this. There is as much meaning in what is unsaid as in what is said. There is so much going on under the surface.The truth is, this is life. Messy, complicated, the pulling apart, the making of concessions. I could relate to this book, these characters. Dreams can turn into failures, opportunities lost. Hopes, heartbreaks, hope and expectations. People come and go, in this book and in our lives. We act out of character, do things we don't understand as one of the characters does in the book.The writing is terrific, the dialogue flows naturally. A book that makes one think about if afterwards is not rare, but not common either. I just feel lucky when I find/ read one that does.ARC from Edelweiss.