A Long Time Gone, Karen White
A Long Time Gone, Karen White
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A Long Time Gone

Author: Karen White

Narrator: Jennifer Ikeda, Susan Bennett, Pilar Witherspoon

Unabridged: 17 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/03/2014

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Sagas, Women


Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes an enthralling southern gothic saga about one woman’s quest for the truth …

When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she’d left, Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children.

What she hopes to find is solace with her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right. Instead Vivien is forced into the unexpected role of caretaker, challenging her personal quest to find the girl she once was.
But things will change again in ways Vivien cannot imagine. A violent storm has revealed the remains of a long-dead woman buried near the Walker home, not far from the cypress swamp that is soon to give up its ghosts.

Vivien knows there is now only one way to rediscover herself—by uncovering the secrets of her family and breaking the cycle of loss that has haunted them for generations.

About Karen White

Karen White has been narrating audiobooks since 1999, with more than two hundred to her credit. Honored to be included in AudioFile's Best Voices and Speaking of Audiobooks's Best Romance Audio 2012 and 2013, she is also an Audie Award finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Library Journal starred reviews. She currently lives with her family in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Publishers Weekly says of Karen's narration of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, "Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience."

Speaking of Audiobooks says, "Karen is one of my auto-buy narrators-if I think a book may interest me, her narration will sway me to give it a try."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dale on November 24, 2016

It took me a while to settle to this novel, which tells the story of a family of women in Indian Mound Mississippi. The story starts with Vivien Walker Moise in 2013 and the discovery of bones on the family property she has returned to after a nine year absence. But who do the bones belong to? Just......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on June 13, 2014

Mothers staying, mothers leaving, daughters staying, daughters leaving. When Vivian Walker returns after nine years, she happens upon the scene of an uprooted tree with human bones exposed. She also finds her mother who is in the early stages of dementia. Whose bones could they be? Why did the skelet......more

Goodreads review by Cathryn on January 07, 2015

This is a story about three generations of Southern women (really, it's four generations, but essentially skips one of them for some reason) wrapped around a somewhat engrossing mystery story. Adelaide's story takes place in the 1920s. Bootsie, her daughter, we pretty much skip. Carol Lynne's story......more

Goodreads review by Desiree on April 04, 2022

Soaked in sadness, but filled with redemption. Feels a lot like a Kristen Hannah novel. Three generations of women repeating the mistakes of the past. The 1920's timeline with Adelaide was my favorite.......more

Goodreads review by Laurel-Rain on March 12, 2016

When Vivien Walker Moise returned to her childhood home in Indian Mound, Mississippi, she had been gone a long time. She brings with her a nine-year legacy of pain and loss, with emotional scarring that needs to heal. Can she find healing in this old yellow house? In LA, she has left behind her crue......more