The Museum of Rain, Dave Eggers
The Museum of Rain, Dave Eggers
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The Museum of Rain

Author: Dave Eggers

Series: The Forgetters #1

Narrator: Jeff Daniels

Unabridged: 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: McSweeney's

Published: 08/01/2021


Synopsis

Oisín Mahoney is an American Army vet in his seventies who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California’s Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their destination is a place called The Museum of Rain, which may or may not still exist, and whose origin and meaning are elusive to all.
In one of his most elegiac short stories, Dave Eggers gives us a beautiful testament to family, memory, and what we leave behind. 
Narrated by Jeff Daniels.

About Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books, including A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine, The Believer:, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries, Wholphin; and an oral history series, Voice of Witness. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Eggers is also the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. A native of Chicago, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.


Reviews

Beautifully crafted short novelette. Really a must read. Just finished reading this a second time. Such a lovely read, I had tears in my eyes.......more

Goodreads review by Reilly

Melissa made me read this on my break and it did not disappoint. Just a lovely lil story.......more