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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

A Novel

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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
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Summary

In this moving, poignant novel by the best-selling author of Birds of America, we share a grown woman's bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth.

The summer Berie was 15, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small-town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger - until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help - and then everything changes.

©2019 Lorrie Moore (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fiction Romance Women's Fiction
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Exquisite overall. Brilliant writing and a great reading slightly let down by the production who didn’t pick up on some editorial glitches

Just wonderful! A few glitches in the recording but the performance and novel were ex

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The novel looks at youth and middle age through the memories of the central character Berei. Jumping back and forth her from and her husband's holiday in Paris and her childhood friendship with Sils, Lorrie explores themes of what it is to be a woman at those two points in her life. Told with humour and insight, I found it a good read and enjoyed every page. The final chapter in particular with it's sad celebration of a female school choir wonderfully coming together in harmony staying in the mind of the narrator many years latter, is written with joy and pathos. She looks back with wisdom of the importance of that moment and reflects that nothing as wonderful has happened since.

A STRONG WOMAN'S VOICE

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beautifully written, performed and produced.
Pitch perfect and completely absorbing, it was just a delight.

perfect

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I’d listened to some of Lorrie Moore’s short stories but this was the first novel I’d read and I found it more satisfying. I loved the way she recreated both the malaise of adolescence and the intense feelings within female friendships.

Gorgeous

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Beautifully written, lyrical story. Beautifuly read. No blockbuster plot, zany characters, or gimmicks. Woven carefully with compassion, the story captures what it feels like to grow up. I don't usually like this kind of relationship-based, not much happens, highly descriptive book, but this is so perceptive, light touch and beautifully done.

Beautiful

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