Lonesome Lies Before Us, Don Lee
Lonesome Lies Before Us, Don Lee
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Lonesome Lies Before Us
A Novel

Author: Don Lee

Narrator: Corey M. Snow

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2017

Synopsis

Yadin Park is a talented alt-country musician whose career has floundered—doomed first by his homely looks and lack of stage presence and then by a progressive hearing disorder. His girlfriend, Jeanette Matsuda, might have been a professional photographer but for a devastating heartbreak in her teens. Now Yadin works for Jeanette’s father’s carpet-laying company in California while Jeanette cleans rooms at a local resort.

When Yadin's former lover and musical partner, the celebrated Mallory Wicks, comes back into his life, private hopes and dreams are exposed and secret fantasies about love and success are put to the test. Beautifully sad and laced with dark humor, Lonesome Lies Before Us is a profound, heartfelt romance, a soulful and memorable song.

About Don Lee

Don Lee is the author of the novels The Collective, Wrack and Ruin, and Country of Origin, and the story collection Yellow. He has received an American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Fred R. Brown Literary Award. His stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, GQ, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Temple University and splits his time between Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish on May 31, 2017

Don Lee’s novels have always resonated with me and towards the end of his latest, I began to understand why. Lee is resolutely plebeian in his writing: he gives his characters, no matter how wealthy or learned, no place to hide from our judgments of them. The business of living is messy, he seems to......more

Goodreads review by Dewitt on April 26, 2017

A gorgeous, solidly realized, and astonishing novel. Don Lee's masterpiece. Pick a passage: "People were often confounded by Yadin's singing voice, considering how soft-spoken and taciturn he was in conversation. It was a high baritone, big, commanding, splintered with husk and yearning. To unsuspec......more

Goodreads review by Tim on October 29, 2021

I loved Lee's first novel, and this too was a treat, which I listened to rather than read. It is a book about creative people and their struggles, about the creative process, about compromise and loss and, yes, loneliness. Yadin Park is a 40ish singer/songwriter in the Townes Van Zandt mold (you can......more

Goodreads review by Mrs. Danvers on February 05, 2018

All the way through this book, I kept being reminded of Love Warps the Mind a Little by John Dufresne, which is surprising because I have never before thought of Don Lee and John Dufresne at the same time. Lonesome Lies Before Us isn't Oedipus Rex, it's Death of a Salesman, only not so dramatic. It'......more

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