Length4h 57m
About this audiobook
A sixty-year-old man who possesses an uncanny, almost supernatural ability to read people. He treats his insight less as a gift and more as a quiet, mathematical certainty, noting that while people do not necessarily trust him, they are desperate to unload their secrets to someone who will not flinch. Having stopped flinching decades ago around the time of Ronald Reagan’s re-election, he lives entirely on his own terms. He values a passive, receptive posture, operating on the philosophy that his "side face" is meant for receiving confessions, while his front face asks questions
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenrePsychology, General Fiction
Length4 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2CHAPTER ONE: LAST CALL
3line forms on its own.
4priest.
5weather: not the hour of it, just the color of the sky.
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6for the next confession on the way out of the last one.
7dig up again for weeks.
8CHAPTER TWO: THE SLOW BOAT
9classifies as a microwave.
10on grown women."
11CHAPTER THREE: EVERYTHING SHE LEFT
12hours, just rain.
13the weather stripping.
14CHAPTER FOUR: THE TENANT
15closer to their fathers.
16CHAPTER FIVE: LETTERS
17lid down.
18CHAPTER SIX: THE ITCH
19"The card thing."
20something."
21lap.
22difference matters more than anything else in this story.
23stuff."
24side.
25So. The whole boy in one syllable.
26CHAPTER NINE: SMOKE
27of it.
28CHAPTER TEN: QUESTIONS THAT AREN'T
29Years. Eight, ten, maybe more.
30Find out, Marsh. So.
31PART II: ADMINISTRATION
32CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE HOUSE EXHALES
33exact as a grave marker for itself.
34key.
35CHAPTER TWELVE: BACKSTRAP '19
36cards to me.
37CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THREE BIOGRAPHIES
38terrible word of mouth.
39CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE BOY AT THE END OF THE BAR
40me.
41him down a fuel log fifty miles a weekend.
42grows readers out of season.
43"Hanley."
44CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE WRONG CORPSE
45steak."
46CHAPTER SIXTEEN: WARRANT
47door."
48line. "They about through?"
49CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE TRUCK STOP
50dead man's wheel.
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