The Art of Floating

Name: The Art of Floating
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
ISBN: 9781480568259

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

Synopsis

At a time when nothing seems real, it takes something truly unusual to put your life into focus.When her beloved husband, Jackson, disappeared without a trace, popular novelist Sia Dane stopped writing, closed down her house, stuffed her heart into a cage, and started floating. It wasn’t the normal response to heartache, but Sia rarely did things the normal way.Exactly one year, one month, and six days after Jackson’s disappearance, Sia discovers a mysterious man on the beach. He’s mute, unresponsive, and looks as if he has just walked out of the sea. It’s the sort of situation Jackson would have solved with a simple call to the police. But Jackson is gone.As unreal as he seems, Sia is determined to help this man. Perhaps she can return him to his place in the world—to whoever lost him and loves him. Perhaps she can answer their questions the way no one could answer hers.As her friends and family help her winnow her way to the truth, Sia comes to realize that the unfathomable leap between sorrow and healing begins with a single step.

About Kristin Bair O'Keeffe

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meredith on March 31, 2014

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

Goodreads review by Holly on July 09, 2014

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

Goodreads review by Pam on May 19, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Judy on June 14, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Cheryl on March 29, 2014

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