Audiobooks by Amy Bloom

"First time available as an audiobook. Read by the author “Bloom writes about passion—shameful, blissful, and perverse. . . . Her voice is sure and brisk, her language often beautiful; the result is humorous and well as heartrending fiction. . . . Her work has the power both to disturb and to console.”—The New York Times Book Review “Amy Bloom writes about the young, the old, the mad, the sane, Jews, Catholics, whites, blacks, men, women, furriers, musicians, doctors, young mothers, people dying, people living. . . . The point-of-view shifts are endlessly fascinating, the voices in perfect tune. She can handle unspeakable pain with the quiet authority of a Chekhov, but has an even rarer gift: she describes happiness so that we can share in it. This is a book of love.”—Ursula K. Le Guin “Come to Me is charged from the first line. . . . Then step by step it gathers weight, texture, and power, and suddenly it ends with what is really another beginning. . . . We know we are in the hands of a real writer.”—Margo Jefferson, The New York Times “A wonderful collection of stories by a writer of amazing skill, intelligence and compassion.”—Alice Hoffman A National Book Award finalist, twice honored in Best American Short Stories, Come to Me is the stunning first collection of stories from New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom. These twelve stories lead us around hidden corners and through the trapdoors of family and marriage, friendship and betrayal. In search of love, the characters of Come to Me—from psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, to fathers chasing after redemption, to wives reinvented as mistresses—are forever shaken and changed, discovering at once the dark depths of their own passions and the possibility of a new kind of grace."

Amy Bloom (Author), Amy Bloom (Narrator)

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Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction

"Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute new work of interconnected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship. Propelled by Bloom's dazzling prose, unmistakable voice, and generous wit, Where the God of Love Hangs Out takes us to the margins and the centers of real people's lives, exploring the changes that love and loss create. A young woman is haunted by her roommate's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places. In one quartet of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to others, find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all while never underestimating the cost. In another linked set of stories, we follow mother and son for thirty years as their small and uncertain family becomes an irresistible tribe. Insightful, sensuous, and heartbreaking, these stories of passion and disappointment, life and death, capture deep human truths. As The New Yorker has said, 'Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books.'"

Amy Bloom (Author), Benjamin Charles, Lisa Flanagan (Narrator)

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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

"New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the last year of his life Amy had struggled to find a way to support his wish to take control of his death, to not submerge 'into the darkness of an expiring existence'. Written with piercing insight and wit, In Love is Bloom's intimate, authentic and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer's, and then on becoming a widow. It charts the anxiety and pain of the process that led them to Dignitas, while never avoiding the complex ethical problems that are raised by assisted death. 'Poignant, kind, funny and ultimately redemptive' - Alain de Botton, author of The Course of Love"

Amy Bloom (Author), Amy Bloom (Narrator)

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White Houses

"Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, 'Hick', as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as 'first friend' is an open secret, as are FDR's own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life. From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan's Washington Square, Amy Bloom's new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity."

Amy Bloom (Author), Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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Thalia Book Club: Amy Bloom's Away

Amy Bloom (Author), Isaiah Sheffer, Jill Eikenberry (Narrator)

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