03355cam a2200349 4500 380494195 TxAuBib 20190417120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062897596 0062897594 e30d46e8-ee4c-494b-af2e-a8eb34a85263 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4128197 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Murphy, Devin. Tiny Americans [Bridges Audiobook] : A Novel. HarperAudio, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 194MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 194MB. HTML:<p><strong>From the National Bestselling author of The Boat Runner comes a poignant, luminous novel that follows one family over decades and across the world—perfect for fans of the film Boyhood.</strong></p> <p>Western New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents' destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. Despite these lessons, he doesn't show them how to survive without him. And when these seasons of trying and failing to quit booze and be a better man are over, Terrance is gone.</p> <p>Alone with their artist mother, Catrin, the Thurber children are left to grapple with the anger they feel for the one parent who deserted them and a growing resentment for the one who didn't. As Catrin withdraws into her own world, Jamie throws herself into painting while her brothers smash out their rage in brutal, no-holds-barred football games with neighborhood kids. Once they can leave—Jamie for college, Lewis for the navy, and Connor for work—they don't look back.</p> <p>But Terrance does. Crossing the country, sobering up, and starting over has left him with razor-sharp regret. Terrance doesn't know that Jamie, now an academic, inhabits an ever-shrinking circle of loneliness; that Lewis, a merchant marine, fears life on dry land; that Connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. He only knows that he has one last try to build a bridge, through the years, to his family.</p> <p>Composed of a series of touchstone moments, Tiny Americans is a thrilling and bittersweet rendering of a family that, much like the tides, continues to come together and drift apart.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2019-04-17 22:00:03. Lee, Ann Marie. Heyborne, Kirby. Eiden, Andrew. Baskous, Christian. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/4128197-TinyAmericans.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e30d46e8-ee4c-494b-af2e-a8eb34a85263&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/4128197-TinyAmericans.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e30d46e8-ee4c-494b-af2e-a8eb34a85263&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)