Length5h 36m
About this audiobook
Sloane is a recently widowed therapist who has quietly decided that being the one who holds means never getting to be held. Theodora is her aging, genetically engineered, unfailingly honest dog — who decides otherwise, and talks her into the stars.
Aboard a passenger ship bound for a distant green planet, they find a crew that isn't human, a couple learning to love across a language neither fully speaks, a small mystery folded into a stranger's bag, and — slowly, against everything Sloane believes about herself — a family. Not the one she lost. A new one, that simply decides she's theirs and declines to be argued out of it.
A tender, witty, character-first novel about grief and the family you find, with dry humor (most of it from the dog) layered over real warmth. For readers who loved Becky Chambers and Fredrik Backman.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length5 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER ONE
14CHAPTER TWELVE
2BEFORE
15BEFORE
3CHAPTER TWO
16CHAPTER THIRTEEN
4CHAPTER THREE
17CHAPTER FOURTEEN
5CHAPTER FOUR
18CHAPTER FIFTEEN
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6CHAPTER FIVE
19CHAPTER SIXTEEN
7CHAPTER SIX
20CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
8CHAPTER SEVEN
21BEFORE
9CHAPTER EIGHT
22CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
10BEFORE
23CHAPTER NINETEEN
11CHAPTER NINE
24CHAPTER TWENTY
12CHAPTER TEN
25CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
13CHAPTER ELEVEN
26AFTER
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