Smells Like Stars, D. Nandi Odhiambo
Smells Like Stars, D. Nandi Odhiambo
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Smells Like Stars

Author: D. Nandi Odhiambo

Narrator: Duffy Mikkelson

Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Book*hug Press

Published: 05/30/2022

Synopsis

Kerstin Ostheim, a journalist, and P. J. Banner, a freelance photographer, have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. They are getting married in two weeks and as the wedding fast approaches, they question their compatibility while investigating mysterious horse killings that are taking place in Ogweyo's Cove, the Pacific tourist haven where they live. In the meantime, Schuld Ostheim, Kerstin's transgender daughter from her first marriage, is preparing for an art exhibit after being hospitalized for a physical assault while her boyfriend, Woloff, an Olympic medalist in the 1500m, comes to terms with a career ending knee injury. As Kerstin and P.J. get closer to the truth about the dead horses, they also begin to more clearly see each other. Simultaneously, Schuld and Woloff encounter obstacles caused by how their relationships with the past effects their sense of a possible future. Ultimately, Smells Like Stars draws attention to what is hidden in plain sight, that life can be cruel, ambiguous and without meaning.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on March 19, 2019

This novel illuminated many themes such as economical inequality and animal cruelty (and the lives of other animals not valued as high as that if human). However, no theme is more prevalent in this novel than that of the struggles suffered by the LGBTQ community in society. Intolerance and the compl......more

Goodreads review by Rita on April 24, 2019

Amazing story, it would be more great if the author specified the events happened in Germany, and wrote about the characters background. Also there were words in Germany and the translation is written down on the bottom of the book... It should simply be in English, I had to check the translation ev......more

Goodreads review by Eric on October 13, 2021

Tasty prose and characters that I sometimes felt drawn to, but a bit disorienting in many ways, between the pacing, the density of things going on, and the steady drumbeat of footnoted translations. It feels both playful and a bit deliberately hard.......more

Goodreads review by Shadi on May 12, 2024

Promising start and tackles issues no one dares touches. It's romeo and juliet modernized. It left me with no real impressions with the characters though their brokenness reminds me of the unjustice society places on being perfect and being part of the norm. As we move one step forward, two steps ba......more

Goodreads review by Sabrina on December 19, 2018

A novel which weaves its way through different cultures by way of an ersatz Hawai’i, and deftly balances despair with hope.......more

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