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This Telling

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Summary

A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on the two accounts of her life—the real one and the one she’s always told the world—in this poignant short story by Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild.

In 1964 teenage Geraldine Waters was sent away by her parents to an unwed mothers’ home, where she gave up her newborn for adoption. Ever since, she’s lived an alternative narrative. Decades later, it’s time for Geraldine to reconcile the telling of her life, to finally grieve, and to discover what happened to that part of her past that slipped away.

Cheryl Strayed’s This Telling is part of Out of Line, an incisive collection of funny, enraging, and hopeful stories of women’s empowerment and escape. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

Audible narration by Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars)
©2020 Cheryl Strayed (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Anthologies Short Stories Coming of Age Family Life Anthologies & Short Stories Women's Fiction
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Cheryl Strayed does not disappoint

Excellent story and characters. All this author's books are worth reading or listening to.

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well written and read

I have to admit that I really enjoyed listening to that short story. It went in completely different directions than I expected listening first few lines. Surpriseing in good way - proven that Cheryl Strayed mastered not only novel/memoir but also short stories. I recommend it.

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