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Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Priyanka Mattoo
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman’s search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles—standalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life.
"I would follow Priyanka Mattoo to the ends of the earth, because she would know what to eat there, and how to make a friend, and then sit me down and tell me a story."—Emma Straub
Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden house in the Himalayas, as were most of her ancestors. In 1989, however, mounting violence in the region forced Mattoo’s community to flee. The home into which her family poured their dreams was reduced to a pile of rubble.
Mattoo never moved back to her beloved Kashmir—because it no longer existed. She and her family just kept packing and unpacking and moving on. In forty years, Mattoo accumulated thirty-two different addresses, and she chronicles her nomadic existence with wit, wisdom, and an inimitable eye for light within the darkest moments. She takes us from her grandparents’ sprawling home in Srinagar, where her boisterous aunties raced through the halls, to Saudi Arabia, where friendships were gained and lost behind the sandstone walls of a foreigners’ compound. We witness her courtship with a nice Jewish boy, now her husband, and her efforts to replicate her mother’s rogan josh recipe via Zoom. And we are with her as she settles into her unlikely new homeland, Los Angeles, where she sets off on what is perhaps her most meaningful journey: that of becoming a writer.
Through these astonishingly poignant and often laugh-out loud essays, Mattoo has given us an openhearted, frank, revealing glimpse into a journey of almost constant motion, as well as a journey of self-discovery.
Critic reviews
“Enjoyably enlightening . . . Charming . . . The memoir’s title is a translation of a Kashmiri phrase that speaks to the preciousness of rare things easily lost. Mattoo admirably rectifies some of these very losses.”—Poornima Apte, Booklist
“Distinguished by its sharp wit and beating heart, this is a salve for wanderers of all stripes.”—Publishers Weekly
“I was enchanted by Mattoo’s Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones, a remarkably vivid, moving epic of displacement and its aftermath. With brio, insight, and great warmth, this exceptional debut offers, as art can, a lasting home.”—R. O. Kwon, author of Exhibit
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- Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel
- By: Paige McClanahan
- Narrated by: Paige McClanahan
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Through deep and perceptive dispatches from tourist spots around the globe—from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam to Angkor Wat—The New Tourist lifts the veil on an industry that accounts for one in ten jobs worldwide and generates nearly ten percent of global GDP. How did a once-niche activity become the world’s most important means of contact across cultures? When does tourism destroy the soul of a city, and when does it offer a place a new lease on life? Is “last chance tourism” prompting a powerful change in perspective, or driving places we love further into the ground?
By: Paige McClanahan
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A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking)
- A Never-Coming-of-Age Story
- By: Jess H. Gutierrez
- Narrated by: Jess H. Gutierrez
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a perfect book for a very imperfect generation. Millennials were the kids who wore slap bracelets and jeans so low rise they could see one another's colons, and they are now adults wondering, Is everyone else as messed up as I am? In her book, Jess shares relatable tales of a woman who feels like a dumpster fire even with a seemingly ideal set up with a fire-captain wife, three kids, and a mortgage.
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Highly Entertaining
- By Jason M Boze on 07-03-24
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The Witchstone
- By: Henry H. Neff
- Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black monolith. It’s a sexy enough assignment—colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera—but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse’s potential; he’d rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan’s subway.
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I loved this book!
- By Maura on 07-03-24
By: Henry H. Neff
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Rooted
- The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
- By: Brea Baker
- Narrated by: Brea Baker
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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To understand the contemporary racial wealth gap, we must first unpack the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. From the moment that colonizers set foot on Virginian soil, a centuries-long war was waged, resulting in an existential dilemma: Who owns what on stolen land? Who owns what with stolen labor? To answer these questions, we must confront one of this nation’s first sins: stealing, hoarding, and commodifying the land.
By: Brea Baker
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This Ordinary Stardust
- A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
- By: Alan Townsend PhD
- Narrated by: Alan Townsend PhD
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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At a time when society’s relationship with science is increasingly polarized while threats to human life on earth continue to rise, Townsend offers a balanced, moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work. Awash in Townsend's electrifying and breathtaking prose, THIS ORDINARY STARDUST offers hope that life can carry on even in the face of near-certain annihilation.
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Nothing ordinary about this incredible story
- By Amazon Customer on 07-04-24
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What You Leave Behind
- A Novel
- By: Wanda M. Morris
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who after the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner and the death of his sister just months before, uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists in half the United States today.
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A fast paced thriller set in the rich Gullah culture.
- By Anthony Wright on 06-29-24
By: Wanda M. Morris
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Death in the Air
- A Novel
- By: Ram Murali
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in London’s poshest clubs and on the squash court, but unmoored after he is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances. He decides it’s time to check in for some much-needed R&R at Samsara, a world-class spa for the global cosmopolitan elite nestled in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. A person could be spiritually reborn in a place like this. Even a very rich person.
By: Ram Murali
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Ambition Monster
- A Memoir
- By: Jennifer Romolini
- Narrated by: Jennifer Romolini
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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After years of relentlessly racing up the professional ladder, Jennifer Romolini reached the kind of success many crave: a high-profile, C-suite dream job, a book well-received enough that reporters wanted to know the secrets to her success, and a gig traveling around the country giving speeches on “making it.” She had a handsome and clever husband, a precocious child. But beneath this polished surface was a powder keg of unresolved trauma and chronic overwork. It was all about to blow.
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Love love love
- By James on 06-07-24
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I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
- One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
- By: Glynnis MacNicol
- Narrated by: Glynnis MacNicol
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered its streets. After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for. When the opportunity to sublet a friend’s apartment in Paris arose, MacNicol jumped on it.
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- By Marlette Hoxmeier on 07-02-24
By: Glynnis MacNicol
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Hey, Zoey
- By: Sarah Crossan
- Narrated by: Sarah Crossan
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care of her mentally declining mother, and remains close with her old friends and her younger sister who's moved to New York. Though her marriage with David, an anesthesiologist, isn't what is used to be, nothing can quite prepare her for Zoey, the $8,000 AI sex doll that David has secretly purchased and stuffed away in the garage. At first, Zoey sparks an uncharacteristically strong violence in Dolores, whose entire life is suddenly cast in doubt.
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drags
- By Oneeye on 06-30-24
By: Sarah Crossan
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- andre M
- 06-21-24
This is a gem. This is a blockbuster.
I just finished and immediately want to restart from the beginning.
Highly recommend. You will like it in long chucks and in short chunks. ”As read by the author,” should be in big bold letters, because nothing is lost in tone or pace or emphasis. When it is funny, she is funny. When it is sad or heartfelt, makes me want to cry. Lovely.
This is a gem. This is a blockbuster.
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- Beatrice
- 06-29-24
Most beautiful and honest storytelling
Beautiful deep story of the beauty and hardships of being displaced and never getting to root down.
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