Amphibians

Name: Amphibians
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Lara Tupper
ISBN: 9781705293423

Author: Lara Tupper

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2021

Categories: Fiction, Women, Psychological

Synopsis

Amphibians invites further contemplation of female physicality—what it means to reside in a female form.

An amphibious aircraft crashes in Maine, a young girl skinny-dips with her elders, a distraught cruise ship dancer boards a water taxi in Grenada, and travelers to Dubai and Abu Dhabi long for familiar oceans; back in New England, small-town artists try to smudge out their tedium with seaside transgressions. Amphibians celebrates home in a cross-cultural way, and the sensation of feeling not quite right in one's own skin, on land and near water, at home and abroad.

About Lara Tupper

Lara Tupper is the author of Off Island, a novel inspired by Paul Gauguin's strange marriage; Amphibians, a linked short story collection; and A Thousand and One Nights, an autobiographical novel about singers at sea. Her prose was runner-up for the 2019 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature and has appeared in Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak, the Believer, Nowhere Magazine, The Ghost Story, Dogwood Journal, Epiphany, Zone 3, and other literary magazines. A graduate of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College, she taught at Rutgers University for many years and now presents writing workshops and retreats in Massachusetts. She is also a jazz vocalist.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon on February 19, 2021

The stories in this collection are just sublime. Disarming, poignant, sharp as a blade and wielded with precision. Tupper told me things about myself that I didn't even know. Her characters are real, wonderful, flawed. Such a fantastic read.......more

Goodreads review by Robert on April 18, 2021

A fantastic collection of stories, each intriguing and engaging in it's own unique way. As our protagonists' overlapping histories are slowly revealed, we find ourselves in an interconnected world, a sort of Maine Literary Universe; like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, except instead of snarky superh......more

Goodreads review by Scott on October 21, 2024

I thought the writing was pretty good in this collection, but I just couldn't get interested in the stories themselves. First it took ditching the audiobook and going to print, because the audio narration style was not doing it for me. Things improved briefly with the print book, but soon I was back......more

Goodreads review by Marjorie on November 05, 2021

Lara Tupper takes us on a wild ride through the world of Maine houses on lakes, cruise ships on the Mediterranean, and the watery uncertain places of a young woman's coming of age. The writing in this book is incandescent without being flowery. Tupper is a truthteller of hard truths, an explorer of......more

Goodreads review by Robin on July 21, 2021

I finally had time to give this wonderful book the attention it deserved! Such a beautifully written look at what it means to inhabit ones own body, each of these stories was a delight.......more