Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Lorrie Moore
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Lorrie Moore
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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
A Novel

Author: Lorrie Moore

Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir

Unabridged: 5 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2019

Synopsis

In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America, we share a grown woman’s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth.The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small-town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger—until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help—and then everything changes.

About Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore is the author of five novels and several short-story collections. Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

Every once in a while you read a news story about a recluse who's devoted his life to some miniature: the New York skyline on a grain of rice, Angkor Wat in porcelain. This is how this novel feels to me. (I should note I have no reason to believe that Lorrie Moore is a bearded recluse.) Frog Hospita......more

Goodreads review by Candi

Childhood and adolescent friendships are perhaps the most poignant of all. They can leave us with feelings of regret for the persons we used to be, the dreams we once had. Remember how fervent were those desires and hopes for the future? I do. Sharing those yearnings with that one special friend oft......more

Goodreads review by Adam

"Once I saw a girl who'd been fired the year before driving around town still wearing that pinafore and dress. She was crazy, people said. But they didn't have to say." There's no better writer of sentences, no funnier cultural being, than Lorrie Moore. The humor here comes, as always, fast and une......more

Goodreads review by julieta

Traté de leer este libro lentamente, para que no se me terminara tan pronto, pero no pude evitar devorarlo. Es una maravilla Lorre Moore, a quien nunca había leído, y sin duda también amé esta traducción, hecha por la maravillosa Inés Garland, quien siento que es como una hermana cósmica de Moore a......more

Quotes

“Touches and dazzles and entertains. An enchanting novel.” New York Times

“Lorrie Moore distills, in less than two hundred pages, the vacillating pleasures and pains of the sisterly love between girls as well as the way such a formative friendship reverberates through the years—even after that relationship has long since ended.” O, The Oprah Magazine

“Exquisite…Exhilarting…Balanced adroitly on the fine line between laughter and tears.” Chicago Tribune

“The extraordinarily talented Lorrie Moore presents the lives of Sils and Berie and the atmosphere of the upstate town they live in with a subtle, moving, and often outright brilliance.” Los Angeles Times

“This novel is like a hand-painted Russian Easter egg, a Chinese sleeve piece done in blind stitch; painstaking, breathtaking beauty in miniature. [Moore] creates a gorgeous, terrifying picture.” Washington Post Book World

“This is more than a girls’ coming-of-age story…Ms. Moore was always able to make readers laugh out loud. This is the first of her works that can bring them to tears as well.” New York Times Book Review

Awards

  • O Magazine Pick
  • New York Times Pick
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