We Are Called to Rise, Laura McBride
We Are Called to Rise, Laura McBride
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We Are Called to Rise

Author: Laura McBride

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne, Madeleine Maby, Pete Simonelli

Unabridged: 10 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2014


Synopsis

“Your heart will break…then soar” (Redbook) when, far from the neon lights of the Vegas strip, three lives collide in a split-second mistake and a child’s fate hangs in the balance.

Avis thought her marriage had hit a temporary rut. But with a single confession in the middle of the night, her carefully constructed life comes undone. After escaping a tumultuous childhood and raising a son, she now faces a future without the security of the home and family she has spent decades building.

Luis only wants to make the grandmother who raised him proud. As a soldier, he was on his way to being the man she taught him to be until he woke up in Walter Reed Hospital with vague and troubling memories of how he got there. Now he must find a new way to live a life of honor.

Every day, young Bashkim looks forward to the quiet order of school and the kind instruction of his third grade teacher. His family relocated to Las Vegas after fleeing political persecution in their homeland. Now their ice cream truck provides just enough extra income to keep them afloat. With his family under constant stress, Bashkim opens his heart to his pen pal, a US soldier.

When these lives come together in a single, shocking moment, each character is called upon to rise. “You’ll be thinking about these characters long after you finish this haunting, heart-wrenching, and hopeful book” (Houston Chronicle).

About Laura McBride

Laura McBride lives in Las Vegas and teaches composition at the College of Southern Nevada. She is the author of the novels We Are Called to Rise and In the Midnight Room.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on October 05, 2018

this one is also more of a 3.5. for me. i think it is very well-written and well-developed, and i know it is going to appeal to a broad range of folks, but my personal disposition is a little too cynical and cranky for its general tone. it's one of those multi-perspective novels where disparate peop......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on September 18, 2014

I am amazed that this is a debut novel . The writing drew me in from the first page and then the descriptions , especially of Las Vegas life just blew me away . The story and characters are so skillfully drawn you would have thought that Laura McBride had been doing this for years . I was hesitant a......more

Goodreads review by Canadian Jen on July 27, 2015

An emotionally charged novel. A woman whose 29 year old marriage dissolves and whose adult son is troubled; a soldier who returns from war, battered and bruised both physically and emotionally; an immigrant 8 year old boy and family whose lives are thrown into tragedy due to cultural differences. At......more

Goodreads review by Camie on May 22, 2017

"We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then , if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies" Emily Dickinson "With this novel, Laura McBride dismantles the American Dream. Set in Las Vegas, our most opulent nowhere , a long- running marriage collapses in a single moment. A......more