There Your Heart Lies, Mary Gordon
There Your Heart Lies, Mary Gordon
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There Your Heart Lies

Author: Mary Gordon

Narrator: Angela Brazil

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/09/2017

Synopsis

Marian cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War-an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life's purpose. Their daily existence is intertwined with Marian's secret past: the blow to her youthful idealism when she witnessed the brutalities on both sides of Franco's war and the romance that left her trapped in Spain in perilous circumstances for nearly a decade. When Marian is diagnosed with cancer, she finally speaks about what happened to her during those years-personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia's millennial generation, as well as the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship. Marian's story compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain, to reconcile her grandmother's past with her own uncertain future. With their exquisite female bond at its core, thi

About Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon is the author of seven novels, including Final Payments, Pearl, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of short fiction, including The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received many other honors, including a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.

About Angela Brazil

Angela Brazil is a professional actor who is proud to be a long-standing member of the Resident Acting Company at Trinity Repertory Company. A faculty member at the Brown/Trinity Conservatory, she received her MFA from the University of Iowa. In addition to teaching and acting, she is an active audiobook narrator and enjoys spending time with her family in Lincoln, Rhode Island.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M

This is another novel connecting the past and present time, taking place in different locations as in so many novels these days. In this case it's 1937 in RI, New York City but mostly in Spain from 1937 - 1946 and 2009 in RI. The older person in these kinds of novels has a story, a secretive past an......more

Goodreads review by Jill

When I pick up a Mary Gordon novel, I know I’m in the hands of a reliable writer who will make me think hard about universal themes — forgiveness, faith, and the spectrum between powerlessness and becoming empowered are in just about all her novels. In There Lies Your Heart, she adds another element:......more

Goodreads review by Sheryl

The loving bond between Grandmother and Granddaughter help bring a painful and long repressed story to light. She loves her Grandmother but discovers that she really knew little about her rich history; love, wealth, war, bravery and great loss. For fans of Orphan Train, My Grandmother Asked Me to Te......more

Goodreads review by KOMET

"THERE YOUR LIFE LIES" is a generational story that seeks to bind the past with the present. As a novel, it is well-written and easily readable. But I found it difficult to make meaningful, emotional connections to Marian Taylor, a 92 year old woman living in 2009 Rhode Island with her granddaughter......more

Goodreads review by Candace

It was probably not the best choice to read "There Your Heart Lies" right after "Saints for All Occasions." The latter novel celebrates the quirks and joys of the Irish immigrant experience and its ties to the Catholic Church; "There Your Heart Lies" reminds us of everything narrow, cruel, and heart......more

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