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Set during the devastating Memorial Day floods in Texas, a surreal, empathetic novel for readers of Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles. 2015. Eighteen-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather's wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire houses as every river breaks its banks. In the midst of the rising waters, Boyd sets out across the ravaged back country. She is determined to rescue her missing friend, and she's not alone in her quest: her neighbor Carla spots Boyd's boot prints leading away from the safety of home and follows in her path. Hours later, her mother returns to find Boyd missing, and she, too, joins the search. Boyd, Carla, and Lucy Maud know the land well. They've lived in central Texas for their entire lives. But they have no way of knowing the fissure the storm has opened along the back roads, no way of knowing what has been erased--and what has resurfaced. As they each travel through the newly unfamiliar landscape, they discover the ghosts of Texas past and present. Haunting and timely, Things You Would Know if You Grew Up Around Here considers questions of history and empathy and brings a pre-apocalyptic landscape both foreign and familiar to shockingly vivid life.

About the Author :
Nancy Wayson Dinan is a native Texan who currently lives in San Jose, Costa Rica. The former managing editor of Iron Horse Literary Review, she now teaches at Texas Tech University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Texas Observer, Arts & Letters, Crab Orchard Review, the Cincinnati Review, and others. She earned her MFA from Ohio State University in 2013 and is currently a PhD student in fiction at Texas Tech. Eileen Stevens is a voice-over actress living and working in New York City whose voice can be heard on cartoons, promos, programs for English-language learners, and audiobooks. She has voiced Iris on Pokémon. An Earphones Award-winning narrator, she has also directed and produced audiobooks for over six years. Mark Bramhall has won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration, more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has repeatedly been named by AudioFile magazine and Publishers Weekly among their "Best Voices of the Year." He is also an award-winning actor whose acting credits include off-Broadway, regional, and many Los Angeles venues as well as television, animation, and feature films. He has taught and directed at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.

Review :
"A harrowing descent into a central Texas underworld. Wayson Dinan's novel will drown you with beauty and grief." -- "Micah Dean Hicks, author of Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones" "By turns magical, harshly realistic, poetic, aggravating, and enthralling." -- "Kirkus Reviews" "Fabulous and engrossing, both faithful to the real-world details of central Texas and wildly imaginative...Dinan's storytelling flows as forcefully as a flash flood in this spellbinding first novel...An extraordinary novel." -- "Shelf Awareness" "In this astonishing debut novel, dream and dread and hope braid into a single, unforgettable tale. It washes away old boundaries and creates a world that is new, slightly menacing, and thrilling." -- "Erin McGraw, author of The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard" "In this myth-like journey, the earth comes alive, the past breaks its bonds, and a girl who understands the deepest griefs of strangers sets out on a desperate search to save a friend." -- "Adelia Saunders, author of Indelible" "Precise and full-hearted, reverently attentive to the natural world, and woven through with subtle magic. Like the cataclysmic storm that sets this book in motion, Wayson Dinan's stunning debut will carry readers clean away." -- "Katie Cortese, author of Make Way for Her and Other Stories" "Proof that the finest American novelist of her generation has taken the stage. Wayson Dinan has created characters so real we can't help but fall in love with them." -- "Dennis Covington, author of Salvation on Sand Mountain" "This strange brew of a book...is shot through with magical realism and undergirded by a naturalist's concern for Mother Earth--and it's all wrapped in lovely sentences. Book groups will have field days discussing this." -- "Booklist (starred review) "


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781982631352
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 198263135X
  • Publisher Date: 18 Aug 2020
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English


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