Length5h 25m
About this audiobook
This tenth-anniversary edition of Kate Cayley's award-winning collection includes three new stories.
A young mother intrudes into the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters fail despite their best intentions and continue on despite their failures.
The stories in
How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life—whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century—Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (120)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length5 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byKate Cayley
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 12, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title
11Acrobat
2Foreword
12Longtermcare
3Preface
13Blindpoet
4Resemblance
14Younghennerly
5Summernazis
15Songanddance
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6Stain
16Boys
7Bloodymary
17Howyouwereborn
8Midway
18Acknowledgments
9Heirloom
19Abouttheauthor
10Thefetch
20Credits
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