One True Thing

Name: One True Thing
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Anna Quindlen
ISBN: 9781436112642

Author: Anna Quindlen

Narrator: Christina Moore

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/25/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

For years, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen has been admired for her extraordinary intelligence, insight, and honesty. A young woman sits in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her dying mother. She didn't do it, but she thinks she knows who did. In the last months of her life, Ellen Gulden's mother revealed startling secrets that challenged everything Ellen believed about her family. Now, in jail, Ellen believes those secrets will tell her who had the courage to end her mother's suffering.

About Anna Quindlen

Anna Marie Quindlen is an author, journalist, and opinion columnist. Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amanda

This is the book that changed everything for me ... I used to HATE reading! I was a slow reader and my mind would wander while I read. During one of my last semesters of college, I took an elective course called Death and Dying. Instead of a final exam, we were required to read this book and then wr......more

Goodreads review by D.

This is one of my all-time favorite books. You can read the synopsis for yourself, but in short Ellen Gulden is a Harvard-educated writer living in New York, on the cusp of greatness. Her father is a Lit. Professor and Ellen connects with him, more than her stay-at-home mother, Kate. Kate is diagnos......more