

Dwell Here and Prosper
Author: Chris Eagle
Narrator: Henry Strozier
Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 05/23/2023
Categories: Fiction, Family Life
Author: Chris Eagle
Narrator: Henry Strozier
Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 05/23/2023
Categories: Fiction, Family Life
Originally from Delco, PA, Chris Eagle has lived in Berkeley, Paris, Antwerp, Pasadena, Sydney, Berlin, Chicago, and now Atlanta, where he teaches Health Humanities at Emory University. His short stories have appeared in AGNI, Louisiana Literature, and SORTES.
Henry Strozier is an actor with a forty-year career in numerous movies and television series. Also a voice-over artist, he has worked extensively in video games and audiobook narration, earning several AudioFile Earphones Awards.
I want to first start by acknowledging the cover. Tell me it doesn't beg for you to pick it up and read the description?! I can practically smell the bitter skin and cigarette smoke! Dwell Here and Prosper will be releasing in May with Tortoise Books. It's coined as 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest......more
Finishing this book, I was desperate to know what came of earlier characters who left the assisted living facility for one reason or another, while envisioning what future years might look like for the remaining crew. All characters are fascinating and well-written, and I especially second the book’......more
I wasn't familiar with the publisher, Tortoise Books, before reading this one and was surprised to see the number of books they have published. I couldn't ask for much better for my first exposure to them. The narrator Richard (Dick, Dicko, Popsicle) is an elderly man recovering from a stroke and liv......more
Dick has been moved to a facility tending to those unfit for everyday society, which is neither a care home or a mental hospital. It merely houses a multitude of delinquents with no chance of cure or rehabilitation. The book is an amalgamation of Eagle's father's notes of living in such facilities co......more
“Chris Eagle does an extraordinary job in this book showing the humanity as well as dignity one can maintain amongst daily indignities in some of our nation’s assisted living and rehabilitation centers. One does not feel pity or contempt reading about these vulnerable and complicated characters, but a sense of awe watching people live life on life’s terms. As the narrator of the book (Chris Eagle’s dad, a lifelong Phillies fan) might have said, the author knocks it out of the park.” Michelle Bowdler, author of Is Rape a Crime?
“Eagle’s Dwell Here and Prosper is a pointed and poignant account of the American convalescent home system. Based on his own father’s journals, it offers a rare and deeply moving record of the daily routine in these underfunded institutions. Leaving nothing to the imagination, Eagle describes with wit and a keen eye for detail how the American health care system deals with those who are pitched precariously between homelessness and mental health units. It is a story of one man’s struggle to retain a sense of control even as he realizes his humbling journey of endurance is all he might have left. Not since Kesey or Ernaux has the desperation, brutality, and inevitability of the care home hit home so powerfully.” Michael O’Sullivan, author of Lockdown Lovers
“Pointed and poignant... Not since Kesey or Ernaux has the desperation, brutality, and inevitability of the care home hit home so powerfully.” Michael O’Sullivan, author of Lockdown Lovers