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Through the Groves

by Anne Hull
Anne Hull
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This program is read by the author,
"Anne Hull has written some of the most important stories of our time, beautifully, unflinchingly."
—Rick Bragg
"Hull delivers her book with a gentle twang and the unpretentious tone of someone who has lived the experiences she describes. Through her character work and emotionally intelligent delivery, Hull helps the listener feel her every bump, bruise, and triumph."- AudioFile
A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. "Look now," her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. "It will all be gone." But the real threat was at home, where Hull was pulled between her idealistic but self-destructive father and her mother, a glamorous outsider from Brooklyn struggling with her own aspirations. All the while, Hull felt the pressures of girlhood closing in. She dreamed of becoming a traveling salesman who ate in motel coffee shops, accompanied by her baton-twirling babysitter. As her sexual identity took shape, Hull knew the place she loved would never love her back and began plotting her escape.
Here, Hull captures it all—the smells and sounds of a disappearing way of life, the secret rituals and rhythms of a doomed family, the casual racism of the rural South in the 1960s, and the suffocating expectations placed on girls and women.
Vividly atmospheric and haunting, Through the Groves will speak to anyone who's ever left home to cut a path of their own.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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Publisher: Macmillan Audio Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781250856272
  • File size: 167482 KB
  • Release date: June 20, 2023
  • Duration: 05:48:55

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781250856272
  • File size: 167501 KB
  • Release date: June 20, 2023
  • Duration: 05:49:52
  • Number of parts: 5
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Biography & Autobiography LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction) Nonfiction

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English

This program is read by the author,
"Anne Hull has written some of the most important stories of our time, beautifully, unflinchingly."
—Rick Bragg
"Hull delivers her book with a gentle twang and the unpretentious tone of someone who has lived the experiences she describes. Through her character work and emotionally intelligent delivery, Hull helps the listener feel her every bump, bruise, and triumph."- AudioFile
A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. "Look now," her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. "It will all be gone." But the real threat was at home, where Hull was pulled between her idealistic but self-destructive father and her mother, a glamorous outsider from Brooklyn struggling with her own aspirations. All the while, Hull felt the pressures of girlhood closing in. She dreamed of becoming a traveling salesman who ate in motel coffee shops, accompanied by her baton-twirling babysitter. As her sexual identity took shape, Hull knew the place she loved would never love her back and began plotting her escape.
Here, Hull captures it all—the smells and sounds of a disappearing way of life, the secret rituals and rhythms of a doomed family, the casual racism of the rural South in the 1960s, and the suffocating expectations placed on girls and women.
Vividly atmospheric and haunting, Through the Groves will speak to anyone who's ever left home to cut a path of their own.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction) Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Macmillan Audio
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781250856272
    File size: 167482 KB
    Release date: June 20, 2023
    Duration: 05:48:55

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781250856272
    File size: 167501 KB
    Release date: June 20, 2023
    Duration: 05:49:52
    Number of parts: 5

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    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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