Now and Again

Name: Now and Again
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Charlotte Rogan
ISBN: 9781478985990

Author: Charlotte Rogan

Narrator: Christine Lakin

Unabridged: 14 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Published: 04/05/2016

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Military Fiction, Small Town & Rural

Synopsis

A provocative novel about the fallout from a search for truth by the author of the national bestseller The Lifeboat.

For Maggie Rayburn -- wife, mother, and secretary at a munitions plant -- life is pleasant, predictable, and, she assumes, secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, an act that turns her world, and her worldview, upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good -- and also by a newfound taste for excitement -- Maggie starts to see injustice everywhere. Soon her bottom drawer is filled with what she calls "evidence," her small town has turned against her, and she must decide how far she will go for the truth.

For Penn Sinclair -- Army Captain, Ivy League graduate, and reluctant heir to his family's fortune -- a hasty decision has disastrous results. Home from Iraq and eager to atone, he reunites with three survivors to expose the truth about the war. They launch a website that soon has people talking, but the more they expose, the cloudier their mission becomes.

Now and Again is a blazingly original novel about the interconnectedness of lives, the limits of knowledge, and the consequences of doing the right thing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on February 21, 2017

Two stories in one. A whistle-blower in a munitions factory. A group of war-damaged vets. Their lives intersect along the fringes, although never the twain shall meet. Interesting enough, but not compelling. More a slice of life than a plot-driven work, it started up with a good gust of steam, but s......more

Goodreads review by Anne on May 08, 2016

The reader is introduced to Maggie and her family and colleagues at what appears to be a turning point in her life. Until now, she's led a very normal, everyday, quite secure life, but within the first few pages of Now & Again, she discovers something and does something that will turn her whole worl......more

Goodreads review by Chris on July 08, 2016

A few years ago I was enticed by Charlotte Rogan's debut novel, The Lifeboat. A pretty cover and an intriguing premise drew me in; bad reviews and a strange similarity to a John Steinbeck story pushed me away. Ultimately, it was the Steinbeck connection that kept me at bay. Wasn't Steinbeck's script......more

Goodreads review by Britt-Marie on May 11, 2016

Betyg: 3 av 5. Det enda rätta är Charlotte Rogans andra roman. Hennes första heter Livbåten, men den har jag inte läst. Det enda rätta var en helt okej bok enligt mig, bra, men inte jättebra. Jag tycker att boken var lite svår att förstå sig på. Och jag, som ju egentligen älskar tjocka och långa böc......more

Goodreads review by Monika on September 27, 2016

Jag läste aldrig Charlotte Rogans förra bok, Livbåten, eftersom så många tyckte en del negativt om den, men när Det enda rätta kom så tyckte jag att jag väl ändå måste ge henne en chans. Trots att den faktiskt klassades som en filosofisk thriller. Om det nu är en genre som finns. Läs mer på min blog......more

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PRAISE FOR NOW AND AGAIN:

"With consummate command of narrative, Charlotte Rogan nimbly brings together whistleblowers and soldiers in a damning--and page-turning--critique of America's military-industrial complex and its massive amount of collateral damage. It's the novel we deserve for the war we didn't."
—Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine and Kapitoil

"Now and Again is breathtaking in its scope and insight. With wit, humanity, and extraordinary clarity of vision, Rogan has found the uniting thread that weaves together contemporary American life. This is America from the ground up, full of ordinary people trying to make sense of their lives, driven by that brand of frontier idealism that might yet be out last best hope."
—Patrick Flanery, author of Absolution and Fallen Land

"Sprawling and vibrant."
—Matt Gallagher, The Washington Post

"An absorbing search for truth...no less exciting than her first...extremely topical...Rogan writes successfully, and forcefully, about experiences that are foreign until they feel familiar."
—Olivia Lowenberg, The Christian Science Monitor

"Rogan's storytelling is multi-layered and many-faceted."
—Carol Memmott, The Chicago Tribune

"This sophomore novel from Rogan, who wrote the award-winning The Lifeboat, once again displays a strong, bright voice and an uncompromising command of storytelling."
—DuJour Magazine

"Has the same lasting power [as her debut, The Lifeboat]."
—Katherine A. Powers, Barnes & Noble Review

"Rogan's second novel...delineates the journey from outrage to action to doubt, contrasting mundane routines with the philosophical dilemmas of ordinary people."
—Publishers Weekly

"Rogan has an excellent grip of the necessary satisfactions of plot, and of both structure and character...She confidently and swiftly builds a complex, three-dimensional lattice of allegiance and fact."
—Aida Edemariam, The Guardian (US Edition)

"A sprawling contemporary story."
—Book Page, Book Page