Those People Behind Us, Mary Camarillo
Those People Behind Us, Mary Camarillo
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Those People Behind Us
A Novel

Author: Mary Camarillo

Narrator: Timothy G Little

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/10/2023

Synopsis

It’s the summer of 2017 in Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divided by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices—divisions that change the lives of five neighbors as they search for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs. Real estate agent Lisa Kensington juggles her job, her shopaholic husband, a mother who knows how to push her buttons, and teenagers with ideas of their own. Ray Gorman, a haunted Vietnam vet, cares for his aging mother. Keith Nelson, an ex-con, lives in his car, parked near his parents’ house. Sixteen-year-old Josh Kowalski works through the shock of his father’s abandonment by slamming on a drum set. Jeannette Larsen, an aerobics teacher numbed by horrific tragedy, turns away from her husband and toward reckless behavior. In the end, they all discover that despite their differences, they are more connected than any of them would have imagined.

About Mary Camarillo

Mary Camarillo went to work for the Postal Service after high school. It might be genetic; both her grandfathers were railway mail clerks. Her short stories and poems have been published in the Sonora Review, the Bookends Review, Lunch Ticket, and The Ear, among others. She lives in Huntington Beach, California, with her husband, who plays ukulele, and their terrorist cat, Riley, who has his own Instagram account.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on July 12, 2023

This is my second novel and I'm very proud of it. I hope you enjoy it too.......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on August 11, 2023

Neighborhoods. We have lived in a dozen over my husband's career. We lived in the inner city and in the suburbs, in resort towns and small towns, among the working class poor and the wealthy. We retired to a city of two square miles with under 12K people. On the surface, it is a friendly place, a sub......more

Goodreads review by Stacy on July 18, 2023

Oh, yes!! Mary Camarillo has done it again! I found her debut novel (The Lockhart Women) to be a compelling read that I could not put down. The same is true for her second novel, Those People Behind Us. I was happy to receive an advance reader copy ahead of the October 2023 publication. The novel fol......more

Goodreads review by David on October 15, 2023

Community life in an exclusive neighborhood whose occupants, although diversely different, deal with common problems and the things life throws at them along the way. Told from the POV's of five main characters with very current and timely themes of politics, grief, economics and change that are hand......more

Goodreads review by Debra on July 23, 2023

As skillfully as regional writers like Elizabeth Strout and Susan Straight, Mary Camarillo captures her diverse beach town community with such precision, you feel you are eavesdropping on real people’s lives. I’m not talking Reality TV characters, but real people, with all their dreams and disappoin......more

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