Live Through This
A Novel

Name: Live Through This
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Kristen McGuiness
ISBN: 9798228458215

Author: Kristen McGuiness

Narrator: Jennifer Pastiloff

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Rise Books

Published: 02/04/2025

Categories: Fiction, Women, Literary Fiction, Western

Synopsis

As narrated by nationally bestselling author Jennifer Pastiloff, Live Through This by Kristen McGuiness is a modern-day western about love and heartbreak, and how, in the end, that destiny which controls us, is also up to us to control. Set in 2016 at the edge of our modern times, Jane Ambrose is a woman trying to reconcile the joyous mediocrity of middle-aged life until one night out ends in the ultimate tragedy. Formerly a producer for Blake Edwards, one of television’s biggest broadcasters, Jane felt destined for an extraordinary life. But when her romance and career with Blake unceremoniously ended, she found herself picking up the pieces with another dreamer gone astray, Theo Karras, a former LA Dodger whose career was also derailed. Both recovering addicts, they begin a new life of day jobs, car seats, meaningful tattoos, and the micro-aggressions of marriage.When violence strikes, disrupting everything they’ve built, Jane is forced to face her complicated past but also her complicated marriage in order to find her voice in the gun control debate. Negotiating between advocacy and exploitation, Jane must decide if she is willing to fight for the dream she left behind, and against the systems that destroyed it.

About Kristen McGuiness

Kristen McGuiness is the LA Times bestselling author of 51/50: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life (Soft Skull Press). She has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Shondaland, and Huffington Post. Kristen lives in Ojai, CA with her family.

About Jennifer Pastiloff

Jennifer Pastiloff is the author of the national bestseller On Being Human. She trots the globe as a public speaker and to host her retreats to Italy, as well as her one-of-a-kind workshops, which she has taught to thousands of people all over the world. The author of the popular Substack, also called Proof of Life, she teaches writing and creativity classes called Allow, and workshops called Shame Loss. She has been featured on Good Morning America, Katie Couric, and in New York magazine, People, Shape, Health magazine, and other media outlets for her authenticity and unique voice. She is deaf, reads lips, and mishears almost everything, but what she hears is usually funnier (at least she thinks so).

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Quotes

“Sometimes the Zeitgeist burns from within. Live Through This reminds us that we begin again even when our lives blow up, even after loss, after grief, after failure, we might yet find the beacons of love, living, thriving. A triumph of heart and guts. A blaze.” Lidia Yuknavitch, nationally bestselling author

“Both a timely and politically astute look at the hot button issue of gun violence and a thoughtful meditation on love and grief and letting go.” Janelle Brown, New York Times bestselling author

“McGuiness’s novel shows off her skills as a terrific storyteller…An engrossing, epiphanic story of second chances, anchored by a relevant message.” Kirkus Reviews