Length9h 55m
About this audiobook
Elmer leaves the Navy with a Harley, a typewriter, and a lifelong talent for solitude. A chance encounter at the Museum of the American Indian brings Marian into his life and for a while, two solitudes find a common rhythm. They marry, have a daughter they name Alejandra, and build a life that is quieter than it looks.
When the marriage breaks, Elmer drifts to a commune built around Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, writes his first novel, and slowly finds his way back. But loss follows him across decades and continents, and it is not until his granddaughter Ettasa, a small, imperious girl arriving from a Calcutta ashram, lands in his aging hands that Elmer Robinson finally understands what it means to be present for another human being.
Dual Reading is about grief carried quietly across a lifetime, about art as the only honest conversation with the dead, and about the love between a grandfather and a granddaughter that neither of them planned and neither could do without.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Psychology
Length9 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
9Chapter 8: Blanche Part 2
2Chapter 2: Common Life
10Chapter 9: Difficulties
3Chapter 3: Snapshots
11Chapter 10: Recognition
4Chapter 4: Communal Living
12Chapter 11: Change of Scene
5Chapter 5: Reversal
13Chapter 12: Mors Vincit Omnia (Death conquers all!) Part 1
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6Chapter 6: Dispersal
14Chapter 12: Mors Vincit Omnia (Death conquers all!) Part 2
7Cjhapter 7: Ettasa
15Chapter 13: Veterans Hospital
8Chapter 8: Blanche Part 1
16About the Author
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