

Census
Author: Jesse Ball
Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Unabridged: 4 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 03/06/2018
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Dystopian, Disabilities
Author: Jesse Ball
Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Unabridged: 4 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 03/06/2018
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Dystopian, Disabilities
Jesse Ball is the author of fifteen books, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Burn Prize, and was long-listed for the National Book Award.
There were a few times that I wanted to put this book aside because I wasn’t getting what was happening in this society, this country with unnamed towns designated by letters from A-Z. I wasn’t understanding what this census was all about, why this unnamed agency of the government was conducting it.......more
Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2018 Jesse Ball's brother Abram, who suffered from Down syndrome, was only 24 years old when he passed away. Ball dedicated this book to him, and as he had planned his life assuming that he will one day become Abram's primary caretaker, this is not story about two brot......more
An unnamed widower receives news from his doctor that he is suffering from a fatal condition and will shortly die. He quits his medical practice and loads his adored son, a boy with Down Syndrome, into his car and takes off across the country to render the census. He is hoping to spend these fleetin......more