Audiobooks by A.M. Homes

"The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family, and must take responsibility for his past actions. Closely guarded secrets surface when his wife Charlotte stops self-medicating to numb her emotions. And when eighteen-year-old Meghan votes for the first time, she awakens to the dissonance between her father's expectations and her own dreams for the future. In a story as much about the dynamics of a family as the desire for power, A.M. Homes unpacks a dangerous rift in American identity, where words mean different things to different people, prompting a reconsideration of the definition of truth and freedom.Dark, funny and terrifyingly prescient, The Unfolding explores the implosion of the American dream and how we arrived in today's divided world."

A.M. Homes (Author), Will Damron (Narrator)

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Days of Awe

"'With dark humor and sharp dialogue, Homes plumbs the depths of everyday American anxieties.' --Time A razor-sharp story collection from a writer who is always 'furiously good' (Zadie Smith, bestselling author of Swing Time). With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy America in her new collection - exploring our attachments to each other through characters who aren't quite who they hoped to become, though there is no one else they can be. In 'A Prize for Every Player,' a man is nominated to run for president by the customers of a big box store, while he and his family do their weekly shopping. At a conference on genocide(s) in the title story, old friends rediscover themselves and one another - finding spiritual and physical comfort in ancient traditions. And in 'Hello Everybody' and 'She Got Away,' Homes revisits a Los Angeles family obsessed with the surfaces and frightened of what lives below. In the nearly three decades since her seminal debut collection The Safety of Objects, Homes has been celebrated by readers and critics alike as one of our boldest and most original writers, acclaimed for her psychological accuracy and 'satire so close to the truth it's terrifying' (Ali Smith). Her first book since the Women's Prize-winning May We Be Forgiven, Days of Awe is a major new addition to her body of visionary, fearless, outrageously funny work. Brother on Sunday, Days of Awe, All Is Good Except for the Rain, The National Cage Bird Show, Your Mother Was a Fish, The Last Good Time, Be Mine, A Prize for Every Player, Omega Point and She Got Away: Recording Copyright 2018 Penguin Random House LLC. Hello Everybody and Whose Story Is It and Why Is It Always On Her Mind: Recording Copyright 2013 W.F. Howes Ltd"

A.M. Homes (Author), Cassandra Campbell, Devon Sorvari, Katharine Mangold, Kimberly Farr, Mark Bramhall, Penny Rawlins, Rebecca Lowman, Will Damron (Narrator)

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The End of Alice

"The End of Alice treads the thin line between the evil and the everyday and caused a major controversy when it was first published. The story centres on a disturbing correspondence between the narrator, a middle-aged killer serving his twenty-third year in prison; and his slang-speaking, sweet-seeming admirer, a nineteen-year-old girl intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Slowly, through these letters, the narrator's dangerous character emerges."

A.M. Homes (Author), Jeff Harding (Narrator)

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Music for Torching

"Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens well and truly out of control. From a hilarious encounter in the pantry with a Stepford Wife neighbour, to a hostage situation at the school, Homes lays bare the foundations of marriage and family life."

A.M. Homes (Author), Penelope Rawlins (Narrator)

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In a Country of Mothers

"An interesting look at the boundaries, fantasy and reality within and outside of the therapy room For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist, her new patient - Jody Goodman, a young filmmaker - is a welcome diversion from her predictable life. Jody, successful, yet uncertain, is disarmed by Claire's interest and approval. Gradually, the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, start to blur. In a Country of Mothers is a transfixing psychological thriller, that forces us to confront our own judgments about sanity, danger and desire."

A.M. Homes (Author), Jennifer Woodward (Narrator)

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Jack

"Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out rowing on a lake and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jack's struggle to redefine 'family', comes a work of enormous humour, charm and resonance."

A.M. Homes (Author), Thomas Judd (Narrator)

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Hello Everybody: & Whose Story Is It, and Why Is It Always On Her Mind?

"‘Neither siblings nor neighbors, he and Cheryl grew up together—each the other’s witness and confidant… She saw his chin and his eyebrow piercing before he even did.’ In Hello Everybody, A.M. Homes shows that when you’re young, when your world is sheltered and your options for exploration limited, even a visit to a friend’s house becomes an anthropological expedition; each family, an as-yet unknown tribe. In Whose Story is it and Why is it Always on her Mind? Homes explores the nature of therapy and trauma through the generations."

A.M. Homes (Author), Katharine Mangold (Narrator)

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May We Be Forgiven

"Harold Silver, a Richard Nixon Scholar, has spent a lifetime watching his younger, taller and more successful brother, George. But Harry knows that George has a murderous temper, and when he finally loses control the result is an act of violence which hurls the two brothers into entirely new lives. A savage and dizzyingly inventive vision that penetrates the dark heart of contemporary America to tell a darkly comic tale of twenty-first century domestic life and how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together."

A.M. Homes (Author), Nathan Osgood (Narrator)

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The Mistress's Daughter

"On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected and the story spirals into something utterly raw and hilarious, heartbreaking and absurd. Along the way, Homes describes the clash between her childhood fantasies of her birth parents and the disappointing reality."

A.M. Homes (Author), Rachel Botchan (Narrator)

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This Book Will Save Your Life

"Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide hole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house..."

A.M. Homes (Author), Richard Poe (Narrator)

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