

The Company We Keep
A Novel
Author: Frances Itani
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 08/18/2020
Categories: Fiction, Women, Friendship
Author: Frances Itani
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 08/18/2020
Categories: Fiction, Women, Friendship
FRANCES ITANI has written eighteen books. Her novels include That’s My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC’s Canada Reads. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa.
Well... this book is beautifully written, there is no doubt about it, and for that alone I would have rated it 5 stars. I guess that’s why it was mentioned for the 2020’s Scotiabank Giller Prize. But unfortunately this one did not touch me in any level. This book is about coping with grieving. That’......more
This book, by a Canadian author, is set in Canada and contemporarily in the fall of 2018. It is the most precious and insightful book I have read regarding bereavement, and I have read many many books about bereavement as I have been widowed twice already in my 72 years and just last February, I los......more
I needed a book like this. The right book at the right time. I found it to be both well written (as Itani's books always are) and also comforting on a variety of levels. This is a book about grief and loss and this is a time all of us are experiencing both because of COVID. By telling the stories of......more
This book hooked me right away, with its Chapter One description of a woman determinedly emptying (“down-sizing”) her house with the help of the burly guys in the Re-Store truck. All six main characters, a cross-section of ages and genders, are wonderfully imagined, as is Rico the parrot (you’ll jus......more