Contrary Motion, Andy Mozina
Contrary Motion, Andy Mozina
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Contrary Motion

Author: Andy Mozina

Narrator: Scott Merriman

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/08/2016


Synopsis

Matthew Grzbc is just your average newly divorced dad. He shares custody of his six-year-old daughter. He may still be in love with his ex-wife. He believes he probably doesn’t deserve his sexy, successful, driven girlfriend. And he plays the harp—that’s his job.When his father dies unexpectedly (he has a heart attack while listening to a meditation CD), Matt is forced to confront his own mortality and the fleeting nature of life—he questions everything, from his romantic attachments to his professional aspirations.When he earns an audition for the principle harp chair in a first-rate orchestra—just the kind of life-changing development he could use right now—he is poised to seize the opportunity…but then his ex-wife gets engaged, his girlfriend grows distant, his daughter seems to be having the 6-year-old version of an emotional breakdown, he learns things about his father’s life that make him question everything he thought he knew about the man, and then…even his harp starts to betray him.

About Andy Mozina

Andy Mozina is a professor of English at Kalamazoo College and the author of the short story collections The Women Were Leaving the Men, which won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and Quality Snacks, which was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Prize. His fiction has also appeared in numerous magazines, including Tin House and McSweeney’s. He lives in Michigan with his wife and daughter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly

Wow. This is the most accurate work of fiction I have ever read that captures the struggles of a self-employed musician -- the financial struggle, anxiety, family balance, and pressure to be flawless. If this author is not a musician himself, he more than did his research. His depiction of the self-......more

Meh. Some of it was mildly amusing, but the MC's whining got on my nerves, especially his constant complaint about his erectile dysfunction. It never occurred to him that maybe he wasn't attracted to the woman he was with and the mutual lack of enthusiasm or interest in their relationship might've b......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

A debut novel that tackles a number of uncommon subjects, it carried me along as it described all the roller-coaster episodes of a man I’ve been: a divorced dad, searching for a satisfying career, finding my way in the dating world. The unusual specifics of the story just made it better, from the in......more