Grieving Conversations
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Narrated by:
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Neil Hellegers
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By:
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Chris Cander
About this listen
From award-winning author Chris Cander comes a wrenching and suspenseful short story about grief.
County Sheriff Brody Hayes is in the midst of a missing person's call - for a five-month-old baby. Deep in the mountains of his hometown, Bowie, Wyoming, Brody's desperate search for the helpless child through a worsening snowstorm leads him on an even greater journey - one through his memories of his childhood, his brother, his son, and a life for himself that he thought was lost.
Gripping, atmospheric, and utterly memorable, Grieving Conversations will at once cause your heart to pound and break.
“Cander is a smart, deft storyteller.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Cander has a gift for description.” (Houstonia Magazine)
©2021 Chris Cander, LLC (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC
©2021 Chris Cander, LLC (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLCWell worth a listen
Hard not to feel emotional while listening
Beautiful
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I wanted to like this more than I do, especially after how much another story by the author, Eddies, truly did a number on me. But there was the instantly alienating aspect of the protagonist being a 'good' cop... which, I don't want to read anything trying humanise the police. The only thing that could humanise a cop is them no longer being a cop. ACAB. Period.
Besides the hero cop protagonist, the story felt a little too melodramatic and misery porn in a way I never felt about Eddies. There's a lot of information and timelines and events and emotions and they are all so very big and important and awful or wonderful or awful. Honestly, it reads like a spec script for a police procedural pilot.
The writing quality is high and there is emotion there for sure, and the performance is pretty great. It just didn't come together effectively for me personally. I know my own predispositions played a part, but I don't think my overwhelm/ underwhelm response can be entirely blamed on that. Still want to read more of the author, but will go on forewarned and try to avoid anything that focuses on cops.
It's Hard to Care About Cops
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