How to Bury Your Brother, Lindsey Rogers Cook
How to Bury Your Brother, Lindsey Rogers Cook
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How to Bury Your Brother
A Novel

Author: Lindsey Rogers Cook

Narrator: Karissa Vacker

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

Her brother's letters reveal everything—if only he'd written one to her.

Alice always thought she'd see her brother again. Rob ran away when he was fifteen, with so many years left to find his way home. But his funeral happened first.

Now that she has to clear out her childhood home in Georgia, the memories come flooding in, bringing with them an autopsy report showing her family's lies-and sealed, addressed letters from Rob.

In a search for answers to questions she's always been afraid to ask, Alice delivers the letters. Each dares her to open her eyes to her family's dark past-and her own role in it. But it's the last letter, addressed to her brother's final home in New Orleans, that will force her to choose if she'll let the secrets break her or finally bring her home.

About Lindsey Rogers Cook

Lindsey Rogers Cook is a senior editor for digital storytelling at the New York Times, previously at U.S. News & World Report. She is the author of How To Bury Your Brother. Lindsey lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra on May 13, 2020

Alice's older brother ran away when he was fifteen years old. Alice always thought that she would see him again, she even thinks from time to time that she sees him on the street.... After his funeral, Alice cleans out her family home and finds a box of letters addressed to various people, some she k......more

Goodreads review by Heather~ Nature.books.and.coffee on July 01, 2020

I thought this was well written and had a good amount of suspense!! It's about family, love, loss, suicide, and grief! At the beginning we read about the suicide of Alice's brother Rob. He ran away from home at the young age of 15, and he never came back! Growing up, they were very close and barely f......more

Goodreads review by Dana on May 07, 2020

How To Bury Your Brother. A strong title. One that gets a reaction right away, different emotions depending on the nature of ones relationship with their brother. For me, this title inflicted sadness. I have one sibling, a brother. At the young age of fifteen Robinson (Rob) runs away from home. His s......more

Goodreads review by Kim on December 16, 2020

This book begins with a suicide. Rob's suicide. It's not really bothersome because you don't know him yet and the importance of this scene passes you by without so much as a backwards glance. Alice and Rob were very close growing up. Unlike other siblings, they never fought or bickered. They never had......more

Goodreads review by catherine ♡ on August 28, 2023

*Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for a free e-copy in exchange for an honest review.* Actual Rating: 2.5 Unfortunately, this book didn't hit me the way I wanted it to, though plotwise there was a lot of potential. The story starts after Rob's suicide; Alice finds a box of letters written fro......more