Canaries
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Canaries
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Narrated by:
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Nancy Mette
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By:
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Dyanne Asimow
About this listen
She is not prepared to be Linda, but Linda will have to do...not the name she would have given herself; that name would have been Simone. So begins Canaries. Thirty-five-year-old Linda is in the midst of a midlife crisis: a marriage disappearing, and a voice lost.
Through a series of adventures, sexual and otherwise, from Death Valley to the Oscars, she realizes being voiceless has benefits she hadn't imagined. Sly irony, compassionate details, and a dash of magical realism create a classic tale proving that finding oneself, and one's voice, can be much more or much less than knowing one's correct name.
©2021 Dyanne Asimow (P)2022 Dyanne AsimowCritic reviews
"In her clever and touching novel, Canaries, Dyanne Asimow has created a witty song about voice; how we lose ours, and how we find it. Asimow's own voice is rich with humor, intelligence and charm. Comic and bracing, Canariesis a joy to read." (Cathleen Schine, best-selling author, The Love Letter, The Grammarians)
"Canaries is a gorgeously written and compulsively readable tale about finding one's voice in a both literal and metaphysical sense. Dyanne Asimow's observations about marriage, sex and self-identity are vividly original." (Lindsay Marcott, best-selling author, Mrs. Rochester's Ghost)
"I devoured Canaries! The humor, the light touch, the twists and turns of the plot and especially Linda/Simone's voice coming through the pages. Truly, a delight. So much fun, with heart and poignancy beneath the fun." (Bernadette Murphy, best-selling author, Zen and the Art of Knitting)