Durable Goods, Elizabeth Berg
Durable Goods, Elizabeth Berg
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Durable Goods

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Narrator: Natalie Ross

Unabridged: 4 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2014


Synopsis

“Radiant...startling and delicate.” —The Boston GlobeOn the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or escapes to her best friend’s house—until Katie’s admiration for her strong-willed sister leads her on an adventure that transforms her life.Written with an unerring ability to capture the sadness of growth, the pain of change, the nearly visible vibrations that connect people, this beautiful novel by the bestselling author of Open House reminds us how wonderful—and wounding—a deeper understanding of life can be.“Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems." —Andre Dubus“This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there." —Christopher Tilghman

About Elizabeth Berg

Elizabeth Berg is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Deanna

I read this quite awhile ago when I was on an Elizabeth Berg binge. I checked out every book of hers from the library and went to town. I love her books. TALK BEFORE SLEEP is one of my very favorite books. So many stick out for me but I really liked this one. Although like most of her books, it was......more

Goodreads review by Sally

I adore anything and everything written by Elizabeth Berg. She puts words to feelings, creating a tangible description of what we feel at so many times in our lives. This book so sweetly describes a time of change, most of it unwelcome, in the life of a young girl in the south. Follow up with Joy Sc......more

Wow! What a surprise! I absolutely adored Elizabeth Berg’s “Arthur Trulov” and I was looking forward to my next Berg novel, however I did not think this was the next book for me. I’m not sure how it ended up in my home (book fairy again?) but I’m thrilled it did and that I read it! I feel the book b......more