The Gravity Of Birds: A Novel
- Author: Tracy Guzeman
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 12:52:15
Synopsis
A debut novel already destined to be a book club favorite. “With its deft interweaving of psychological complexity and riveting narrative momentum, with its gorgeous prose and poetic justice, The Gravity of Birds is about sibling rivalry, tragedies, and resurrections. And it’s irresistibly exquisite” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Forty-four years after the brilliant young painter, Thomas Bayber, first meets Alice and Natalie Kessler, Bayber unveils a never-before-seen work, Kessler Sisters—a provocative painting depicting the young Thomas, Alice, and Natalie. Bayber asks Dennis Finch, an art history professor, and Stephen Jameson, an eccentric young art authenticator, to sell the painting. But their task becomes more complicated when the artist requires that they first locate Alice and Natalie, who seem to have disappeared.
Told in alternating chapters that weave revelations about the sisters’ past with clues Finch and Jameson discover in the present, this story sets three characters on a collision course with their histories, showing how families tear themselves apart and then try to bind themselves together again, not always creating the same fabric. The Gravity of Birds “combines the drama of warring sisters, the mystery of a missing painting, and the sorrow of lost love into a haunting elegy that will…leave you breathless” (Tiffany Baker, author of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County).
Chapters
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GravityOfBirds 21 Ch10a
Duration: 21min -
GravityOfBirds 22 Ch10b
Duration: 30min -
GravityOfBirds 23 Ch11a
Duration: 21min -
GravityOfBirds 24 Ch11b
Duration: 23min -
GravityOfBirds 25 Ch12a
Duration: 22min -
GravityOfBirds 26 Ch12b
Duration: 11min -
GravityOfBirds 27 Ch12c
Duration: 28min -
GravityOfBirds 28 Ch13a
Duration: 27min -
GravityOfBirds 29 Ch13b
Duration: 28min -
GravityOfBirds 30 Ch14a
Duration: 27min -
GravityOfBirds 31 Ch14b
Duration: 27min -
GravityOfBirds 32 Ch15a
Duration: 20min -
GravityOfBirds 33 Ch15b
Duration: 13min -
GravityOfBirds 34 Ch16a
Duration: 21min -
GravityOfBirds 35 Ch16b
Duration: 20min -
GravityOfBirds 36 Ch16c
Duration: 19min -
GravityOfBirds 37 Epilogue
Duration: 05min -
GravityOfBirds 38 Close
Duration: 40s