

The Art of Floating
Author: Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
Narrator: Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
Unabridged: 10 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/01/2014
Categories: Fiction, Psychological, Women
Author: Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
Narrator: Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
Unabridged: 10 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/01/2014
Categories: Fiction, Psychological, Women
Kristin Bair O’Keeffe is the author of the novel Thirsty, as well as numerous essays about China, bears, and off-the-plot expats. She lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with her husband and daughter and travels to anywhere as often as she can.
Many other novels have dealt with great love, tragic loss and the wrenching, exhausting task of rebuilding one’s life from the ground up, but very few of them manage to pull it off with anything approaching the wit, style and grace of Kristin Bair O’Keeffe in The Art of Floating. One year, one month......more
Most of the time, we read books and say, “Aha, this is like that last book I ready by so-and-so.” But there is no possible way to do that with THE ART OF FLOATING. Kristin Bair O'Keeffe has written an intelligent, provocative novel that seems on its surface to be traditional fiction, in that it's an......more
I do love books that take place on the beach. This was lovely at times and very sad. It was all about grief and loss and being found. I’m a wee bit confused about some parts. And I didn’t like the ending. I fell in love with the dog :)......more
THE ART OF FLOATING is an extraordinary and magical novel – a complex, deep and thought-provoking story of love, loss, and grief ---a state of mind, one of mere existing--a state of floating, a world of imagination, suspended to protect oneself from grief, and hurt---Coping without really living or......more
I did not know what to make of this book when I first read the concept. All I know is that it sounded promising and this is why I wanted to read this book. I must admit that I did not love this book but I did not hate it either. It was just middle of the road for me. I found Toad to be the most intr......more