Meanwhile, her best friend, Jenny Sweet, appears to be sailing through life. Penelope Ruiz-Kar is doing it all-and barely keeping it together. I’m Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagan

Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible. But it is Ravi-her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant-who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. There’s not a simple way to browse the free narration offerings by genre, so I did some tenacious investigating.Ģ.

(Pro tip: there will be a little orange pair of headphones next to the Kindle Unlimited label). But then I remembered how often an audiobook can flop (is the narrator just right? Does this title WORK for us when read aloud? ) and figured out a few tips for making the most of the Unlimited audiobook supply.įirst, I learned I need to use this link: Books with Narration in Kindle Unlimited to make sure I was only browsing books with FREE narration included. And we’re listening to HOURS of audiobooks. Here’s the thing, though: Kindle Unlimited Audiobooks are such a very specific niche that it takes a little digging to find the good stuff.įor a hot second, I considered just spending way too much to buy them full price. We’re taking day trips all over the state. As an elementary librarian, I’m off work. In the fall I’m particularly vigorous about evening reading with my children before bedtime, and in the spring I have all my students take their independent reading books out to the courtyard to read under the trees. Winter will find me in a scalding hot tub, reading for hours while soaking the bottom edge of whatever paperback I’m clutching.

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