The City Still Breathing, Matthew Heiti
The City Still Breathing, Matthew Heiti
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The City Still Breathing

Author: Matthew Heiti

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/11/2014


Synopsis

A body is found on the side of a highway. Naked, throat slashed, no identification. It disappears from the back of a police van and begins a strange odyssey, making its way, over the course of one early winter night, all around the northern town of Sudbury and through the lives and dreams of eleven very different people. These eleven people - from the police officers who retrieve the body to the teenager who carries it away to the young woman planning to strike out for Toronto and Sudbury's local drug dealer - are all damaged in some way, and eventually, through the body itself, are brought together in a strange moment of violence.
"This is a book with brains and muscle, resonant and intense, and Matthew Heiti is a prodigious talent, the spooky bard of mullets and muffin-tops, grow-ops and stolen snakeskin boots on Highway 69." -- Mark Anthony Jarman

Reviews

Goodreads review by Grant on November 05, 2013

OK, this guy has imagination and craft to burn. Very, very interested in seeing what he does next. Pacing, voice, characterization are all strengths. Clincher: sets up the story well, but knows how to finish it with equal strength.......more

Goodreads review by Shane on February 04, 2024

I wanted to love this book but I found it underwhelming and largely unmemorable. much of the plot was lackluster, like the core "mystery" never got resolved and the ending felt anti-climactic (maybe that's a hot take). the characters were actually very well-developed, but my favorite characters were......more

Goodreads review by Luis on May 12, 2015

The events unfold in a single night in a small Canadian town. The author builds the story around a missing corpse from the perspective of a set of very distinct characters, each one of them with their own fears, desperation and hopes, although sharing a particular feature: being in a complicated rel......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on September 10, 2013

Dark, interesting read -- I really enjoyed the author's method of linking the seemingly disparate stories, and how he used the mysterious body disappearance as a bonding element to these people's lives.......more

Goodreads review by mfc on July 09, 2018

This book was an easy read and totally fine but I doubt I’ll be able to talk about it once I start another book. I can recognize that it was well written and the characters definitely felt like the author knew them but again, they won’t stick in my mind once I’ve moved onto something else.......more