

Back Roads
Author: Tawni O’Dell
Narrator: Andrew Eiden
Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/04/2015
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Tawni O’Dell
Narrator: Andrew Eiden
Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/04/2015
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Tawni O’Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection.
Andrew Eiden is an actor and winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award for narration. He has been acting since the age of four, working at regional theaters, in national commercials, and on numerous television shows.
It’s more about solving a mystery than romance. It didn’t draw me in emotionally as much as I would have liked. It was ok. STORY BRIEF: Leigh was raised by relatives who didn’t want her. They fed and clothed her but gave nothing emotional. She had to work to pay for her own education. She is now sheri......more
My 1st book by this author. I liked it. I may go on and read the rest but probably not for awhile. The H was a good guy with many issues caught inside him. The h was the town sheriff who was fighting her own battles as a woman sheriff. Together I though they made a good strong couple. To me the myst......more
Leigh is 30 and sheriff of a small back roads town. She's feeling invisible and lonely when she meets a stranger in town, Will Scott, and uncharacteristically spends the evening at the fair with him: riding the ferris wheel, playing games, even going in the tunnel of love. When a young woman of the......more
“Back Roads transports us to the hills of western Pennsylvania and introduces a wonderfully touching narrator, Harley Altmyer…This is a fast, furious, funny novel.” Margot Livesey, New York Times bestselling author
“Tense…deftly captures the voice of a teenage boy who’s in trouble.” New York Times Book Review
“O’Dell’s storytelling has natural flair.” Los Angeles Times Book Review
“An intense story of family, frailty, and dysfunction…captivatingly told.” Chicago Tribune
“A page-turner…gritty, funny, sexy.” Chicago Sun-Times
“O’Dell does a wonderful job of making the world of the Altmyers real…a unique voice…a fine effort by a writer of promise.” Newsday
“Poignant…achingly beautiful prose…Remarkable.” San Diego Union
“Do not miss this one.” Mademoiselle
“O’Dell’s scorching tale touches on all the tropes of dysfunctional families, but her characters fight free of stereotypes, taking on an angry, authentic glow.” Publishers Weekly
“The characterizations are vivid, and each family member generates sympathy…An absorbing novel.” Library Journal