When You See Her, Barbara Boehm Miller
When You See Her, Barbara Boehm Miller
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When You See Her

Author: Barbara Boehm Miller

Narrator: Katie Schorr

Unabridged: 10 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2023

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age


Synopsis

Trapped and isolated in small-town Wisconsin, Sarah wants nothing more than to blend in and lead a normal life away from her abusive brother. Weighing five hundred pounds and having no job or formal education, however, makes this almost impossible.When Sarah commits an unthinkable act, she seizes the only opportunity available to escape the consequences of her actions. She contacts the carnival man who previously offered her a job as a sideshow act. Burying her guilt, Sarah leaves home and begins performing under the stage name Lola Rolls.Traveling from town to town, Lola wonders if it’s possible to hide in plain sight and truly outrun her past. She builds lasting friendships along the way, and as the quality of her performances improves, she starts on a path to self-reliance and self-acceptance.Set in the late 1970s, When You See Her is an immersive page-turner that explores what it means to be both visible and invisible, simultaneously desired and reviled, while carving out a space in a too-small world.

About Barbara Boehm Miller

Barbara Boehm Miller writes about secret societies and marginalized people and creates desperate and unsavory characters who, nonetheless, appeal to readers. She earned a Master of Arts degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University and has had several short fiction pieces published in literary journals. She serves as a senior diplomatic translator for the US Department of State. When You See Her is her first novel. Read more at www.barbaraboehmmiller.com.

About Katie Schorr

Katie Schorr is an actor and writer in New York. Her one-woman show, Take Me. Seriously, ran for six months at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and she performs throughout New York in new works at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Ars Nova, among other theaters. She has appeared on VH1’s Best Week Ever and costars in the web series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader. Her audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel’s bestselling Immortals series. Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, “Narrator Katie Schorr has a wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of teenage characters.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on March 31, 2023

Long before AI started displacing workers, TV did away with whole sectors…namely the traveling carnival sideshows that brought entertainment to small towns in the US not so long ago. Barbara Boehm Miller helps us befriend a small band of these carnival folks, thrown together by dreadful misfortune i......more

Goodreads review by 2manybooks2littletime on April 19, 2023

Thank you to my partner, Suzy Approved Book Tours, and the author, Barbara Boehm Miller. I appreciate the gifted and signed paperback, and I am leaving this review voluntarily! 1. Taking Advantage - Wow. It seems like Sarah has a place to get away, albeit, to be a spectacle. Yet, right off the bat, J......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on June 16, 2023

TITLE: WHEN YOU SEE HER AUTHOR: Barbara Boehm Miller PUB DATE: 01.23.23 Now Available SYNOPSIS: Swipe Above In When You See Her, author Barbara Boehm Miller opened my eyes to the world of the traveling circus as we follow the life of Sarah from a small town in Wisconsin who is trying to escape her abus......more

Goodreads review by Sara on July 21, 2024

Good read!......more

Goodreads review by Donna on September 15, 2024

Trigger warnings: fat shaming/fat phobia, SA, violence, illegal activity *************** I read romance almost exclusively, with an occasional biography or cozy mystery for a palate cleanser. But after reading a blurb on this women’s fiction title, I was intrigued. Sarah/Lola is seventeen years old an......more