If You Want Me to Stay

Name: If You Want Me to Stay
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Parker
ISBN: 9781449800918

Author: Michael Parker

Narrator: T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 4 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/24/2008

Categories: Fiction, Sagas

Synopsis

Joel Junior's daddy has gone off again. And since his momma and big sister got fed up and left, he's in charge of little brothers Carter and Tank. But Daddy's got Carter, and Joel and Tank need to get away. So with no one to guide him but the soul singers in his head, Joel sets off with Tank to learn the truth about love. This work by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Michael Parker is at once funny, touching, and utterly heartbreaking.

About Michael Parker

Michael Parker is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Oxford American, Runner's World, Men's Journal, and other publications. His work has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize. He is the Nicholas and Nancy Vacc Distinguished Professor in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He lives in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patti

I found the writing style very difficult to follow. The story was heart wrenching and told through the mind of a 14 year old struggling with saving his family. But he kept trailing off mid thought and was hard to keep up with what was going on......more

Goodreads review by Linda

This is a sad but totally captivating book about a 14 year old struggling to keep his family together after his mother leaves him with two young brothers and a mentally ill father. The book is so well written that I found myself taking on the family's pain as I read and left with a lingering sense......more