The Wake Up, Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Wake Up, Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The Wake Up

Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/05/2017


Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an emotional novel of how one man’s life changes forever when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others.Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden Delacorte for a long time. It all comes back in a rush during a hunting trip, when he’s suddenly attuned to the animals around him, feeling their pain and fear as if it were his own. But the newfound sensitivity of Aiden’s “wake up” has its price. He can no longer sleepwalk through life, holding everyone at arm’s length. As he struggles to cope with a trait he’s buried since childhood, Aiden falls in love with Gwen, a single mother whose young son bears a burden of his own.Sullen and broken from his experiences with an abusive father, Milo has turned to acting out in violent and rebellious ways. Aiden can feel the boy’s pain, as well as that of his victims. Now he and Milo must sift through their pasts to find empathy with the innocent as well as the guilty, to come to terms with their deepest fears, and to finally discover the compassionate heart of a family.

About Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of thirty-three published books. Her bestselling 1999 novel, Pay It Forward, adapted into a major Warner Bros. motion picture, made the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults list and was translated into more than two dozen languages for distribution in more than thirty countries. Her novels Becoming Chloe and Jumpstart the World were included on the ALA’s Rainbow List; Jumpstart the World was also a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards and won Rainbow Awards in two categories. The Language of Hoofbeats won a Rainbow Award. More than fifty of her short stories have been published in many journals, including the Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and the Sun, and in the anthologies Santa Barbara Stories and California Shorts, as well as the bestselling anthology Dog Is My Co-Pilot. Her short fiction received honorable mention in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, a second-place win for the Tobias Wolff Award, and nominations for Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Three have also been cited in Best American Short Stories.Hyde is the founder and former president of the Pay It Forward Foundation. As a professional public speaker, she has addressed the National Conference on Education, twice spoken at Cornell University, met with AmeriCorps members at the White House, and shared a dais with Bill Clinton. An avid equestrian, photographer, and traveler, she lives in California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on August 10, 2022

3.75 A big thank you for being gifted a Kindle copy of my first Catherine Ryan Hyde novel in return for an honest review. It’s literally just what the (book) doctor ordered!! The summer sinus crud is only made slightly better by a good book— especially ones that deal with healing. Aiden, a 40-year-old......more

Goodreads review by Amy on December 02, 2017

There is a certain type of magic in every single Catherine Ryan Hyde book that I’ve read, an underlying feeling of hope that always restores my faith in humanity and leaves me feeling good about the world. It’s odd too, because she’s not afraid to tackle some tough issues that on the surface would s......more

Goodreads review by DJ on January 02, 2018

Favorite Quotes: He wished he had a better bead on the greater worries, but they eluded him. Just shadows. Ghosts. Unknowable and indistinct. And yet so very . . . there. He felt utterly unequipped to go home. Forcing himself back into a world that had put him in some role of authority felt akin to tu......more

Goodreads review by Dale on December 13, 2024

Four and a half stars. Forty year old Aiden Delacorte has been a cattle rancher just like his stepfather, Harris who left the ranch to him. But then, while on a hunting trip feelings Aiden had long denied and buried, come rushing back. He finds himself feeling the animal’s pain as if it were his own......more

Goodreads review by Judy on December 05, 2017

Master storyteller, Catherine Ryan Hyde returns following (2017) Allie and Bea with her latest emotional, moving, and heartfelt novel THE WAKE UP– a spiritual journey of rediscovery, self-worth, hope, and acceptance. A man and a boy have lost their way. Fate steps in and connects these two in un......more