Audio only
Length10h 58m
About this audiobook
"Alison Wisdom's addictive, down-the-rabbit-hole debut reads like The Girls by way of The Virgin Suicides, with an extra dash of Cheever's unsettling suburbia. The result is sinister and surprising: a novel I couldn't put down, and one that I kept thinking about long after I'd reached its unexpected, chilling end." —Emily Temple, author of The Lightness
One of Newsweek, Bustle, and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books and Goodreads' "Debut Novels to Discover in 2021," We Can Only Save Ourselves is the story of one
teenage girl’s unlikely indoctrination and the reverberations in the tight-knit
community she leaves behind.
Alice Lange’s neighbors are proud to know her—a high-achieving
student, cheerleader, and all-around good citizen, she’s a perfect emblem of
their sunny neighborhood. The night before she’s expected to
be crowned Homecoming Queen, though, she commits an act of vandalism, then
disappears, following a magnetic stranger named Wesley to a bungalow in another
part of the state. There, he promises, Alice can be her true self, shedding the
shackles of conformity.
At the bungalow, however, she learns
that four other young women seeking enlightenment and adventure have already
followed him there. Her new lifestyle is intoxicating at first, but as Wesley’s
demands on all of them increase, the house becomes a pressure cooker—until one
day they reach the point of no return.
Back home, the story of Alice’s
disappearance and radicalization is framed by the first-person plural chorus of
the mothers who knew her before, who worry about her, but also resent the tear
she made in the fabric of their perfect world, one that exposes the question: Isn’t
suburbia a kind of cult unto itself?
Combining the sharp social
critique of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere with the elegiac beauty
of Emma Cline’s The Girls, this is a fierce literary debut from a writer
to watch.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.5 (1.7K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length10 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byJesse Vilinsky
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 2, 2021
LanguageEnglish
More from Alison Wisdom
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m4.5 (359.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisHonoree Fanonne Jeffers29h 49m4.5 (58K)$8 · $0.00
The Rose CodeKate Quinn16h 2m4.4 (493.7K)$33 · $0.00
Farewell My Lovely (Annotated)Raymond Chandler10h 37m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m4.5 (77.2K)$53 · $0.00
Olympic Mountain PursuitJodie Bailey5h 55m4.6 (638)$12 · $0.00
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m4.5 (3.2K)$46 · $0.00
Deadly Badlands PursuitSharee Stover5h 53m4.6 (361)$12 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Three ComradesErich Maria Remarque15h 50m4.5 (47.3K)$2 · $0.00
AngelAnita Waller10h 30m4.6 (672)$30 · $0.00
The BorderDon Winslow29h 8m4.5 (35.7K)$53 · $0.00
FlashpointCatherine Coulter11h 38m4.5 (11.6K)$29 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Fang Si-Chi's First Love ParadiseYi-Han Lin8h 25m4.5 (4K)$26 · $0.00
No Woman Left BehindJulie Moffett8h 49m4.5 (3K)$25 · $0.00
CovertJanie Crouch6h 15m4.5 (2K)$12 · $0.00
Cold Case InvestigationNicole Helm5h 30m4.6 (321)$5 · $0.00
The ReunionJana DeLeon6h 31m4.5 (1.6K)$12 · $0.00
Courage Under FireSharon Dunn5h 50m4.5 (730)$24 · $0.00
Decoding the TruthJulie Miller7h 31m4.6 (350)$12 · $0.00
Murder Gone ColdB.J. Daniels5h 50m4.5 (562)$12 · $0.00
You may also like
Cloud GirlsLisa Harding10h 46m4.0 (906)$29 · $0.00
Cult FollowingJ. W. Ocker8h 18m3.9 (2K)$23 · $0.00
PenanceEliza Clark11h 50m3.9 (59.1K)$29 · $0.00
Out of BodyNia Davenport8h 44m4.1 (1.2K)$26 · $0.00
Clean PointMeg Jones11h 34m3.8 (4.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Hate U GiveAngie Thomas11h 50m4.5 (1.1M)$8 · $0.00
The ClubTakis Würger5h 24m3.7 (5.2K)$20 · $0.00
To the Power of ThreeLaura Lippman14h 47m3.7 (7.2K)$33 · $0.00
Pretty Little Liars #7: HeartlessSara Shepard7h 14m4.1 (49.5K)$24 · $0.00
The Cursed FriendBeatrice Salvioni6h 44m4.0 (12K)$24 · $0.00
The ScammerTiffany D. Jackson9h 10m4.1 (32K)$29 · $0.00
Now You See UsBalli Kaur Jaswal11h 12m3.8 (6.7K)$8 · $0.00
Rainbow BlackMaggie Thrash12h 54m4.0 (6.1K)$5 · $0.00
The Dead Queens ClubHannah Capin10h 52m3.7 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
The Other Side of EverythingLauren Doyle Owens8h 46m3.6 (4.3K)$17 · $0.00
Light of DayAllison van Diepen7h 25m4.2 (445)$24 · $0.00
The NocturnalsFrances Whiting8h 52m4.2 (1.2K)$29 · $0.00
StealingMargaret Verble6h 44m4.1 (4.2K)$24 · $0.00
Ask MeKimberly Pauley7h 4m4.0 (1.1K)$23
The Secret SharerJoseph Conrad1h 46m3.8 (9K)$3.50 · $0.00