Length12h 11m
About this audiobook
Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard. After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano. The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel. With a mystery at its center and filled with warmth, drama, romance, humor, pop culture, and a little magical realism, The Bird Hotel has all the hallmarks of a Joyce Maynard novel that have made her a leading voice of her generation. The Bird Hotel is a big, sweeping story spanning four decades, offering lyricism as well as whimsy. While the world New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard brings to life on the page is rendered from her imagination, it's one informed by the more than twenty years of which she has spent a significant amount of her time in a small Mayan indigenous village in Guatemala. As the New York Times said, "[Maynard] has an unswerving eye, a sharply perked ear, and the ability to keep her readers hanging on her words." People Magazine said of her: "Maynard's spare prose packs a rich emotional punch."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length12 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1One thing about hard times
21 1970. From now on you’re Irene
32 No evidence of survivors
43 A man from the sunny side of the street
54 One way to find your family
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65 Orange and black balloon
76 The earth opens up
87 Riding the Green Tortoise
98 Bus to nowhere
109 A six-year-old tour guide
1110 Stone egg
1211 The only thing that lasts is the volcano
1312 I remember food
1413 Shrimp as big as your hand
1514 How to make macarons
1615 No return address
1716 A hand-beaded belt
1817 Seekers
1918 A good place to disappear
2019 Have you ever met Spider-Man?
2120 Unlikely demographics
2221 Only money
2322 Bankers come knocking
2423 Health problems, and a bag for carrying potatoes
2524 Serpent in the garden
2625 Scorpions
2726 Buying a pencil
2827 A long-lost daughter. A paint box
2928 Six hundred and seventy two varieties of birds. Not to mention fireflies
3029 A fall
3130 Mourning, overdue
3231 The last chapter, the first chapter
3332 A visit from the lawyer
3433 Fixer-upper
3534 A particularly fine tilapia, a long list of repairs
3635 The man for the job
3736 Honeymooners
3837 A large check
3938 A dinner party, a volcano
4039 Honeymoon, interrupted
4140 Just a traveler passing through
4241 The question of family
4342 A folder of letters
4443 The queen of trash
4544 The lizard men
4645 Paperwork
4746 Piece of heaven
4847 An herb that makes babies possible
4948 Rubber boots on the mountain
5049 Fancy sneakers and a bag of basketballs
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