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The Saved
Author: Saloomeh Saz
Narrator: AI Voice Juliet Foster
Unabridged: 12 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Saloomeh Saz
Published: 10/31/2026
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Family Life
Synopsis
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
On a February evening in 2010, in the small California coast town of Bowen Landing, a wave takes Ruth Doyle off the sand at the mouth of the river. Her sister Agnes is standing at the kitchen window. The phone is in her pocket. The rescue buoy hangs six feet from the door. For four minutes, Agnes does nothing.
Then she runs into the surf, and the town tells the story it will tell for years: that Agnes tried to save Ruth the way Ruth once saved her, thirty-one years earlier, at the same river mouth, when Agnes was ten.
Only one other person was in the house that evening: Ruth's fourteen-year-old daughter, Clare. It takes her sixteen years to put together what she saw.
The Saved is a novel about a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid, about the stories families and towns tell so they can go on, and about how an ordinary person is made, slowly and by the people who love her, into someone who can stand still while her sister drowns.
Narrated by Juliet Foster.
On a February evening in 2010, in the small California coast town of Bowen Landing, a wave takes Ruth Doyle off the sand at the mouth of the river. Her sister Agnes is standing at the kitchen window. The phone is in her pocket. The rescue buoy hangs six feet from the door. For four minutes, Agnes does nothing.
Then she runs into the surf, and the town tells the story it will tell for years: that Agnes tried to save Ruth the way Ruth once saved her, thirty-one years earlier, at the same river mouth, when Agnes was ten.
Only one other person was in the house that evening: Ruth's fourteen-year-old daughter, Clare. It takes her sixteen years to put together what she saw.
The Saved is a novel about a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid, about the stories families and towns tell so they can go on, and about how an ordinary person is made, slowly and by the people who love her, into someone who can stand still while her sister drowns.
Narrated by Juliet Foster.