Jami Attenberg has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 2.2★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is All Grown Up.
All Grown Up
Summary
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a 39-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it's what she leaves unsaid - she's alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shrieker in bed, captain of the sinking ship that is her flesh - that feels the most true. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: her best friend, Indigo, is getting married; her brother - who miraculously seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood - and sister-in-law are having a hoped-for baby; and her friend Matthew continues to wholly devote himself to making dark paintings at the cost of being flat broke. But when Andrea's niece finally arrives, born with a heartbreaking ailment, the Bern family is forced to reexamine what really matters. Will this drive them together or tear them apart? Told in gut-wrenchingly honest, mordantly comic vignettes, All Grown Up is a breathtaking display of Jami Attenberg's power as a storyteller, a whip-smart examination of one woman's life, lived entirely on her own terms.
©2017 Jami Attenberg (P)2017 Recorded Books
The Middlesteins
Summary
For more than 30 years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food - thinking about it, eating it - and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle - a whippet thin perfectionist - is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone? Or are others at fault, too? With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food.
©2012 Jami Attenberg (P)2012 Hachette Audio
Saint Mazie
Summary
Meet Mazie Phillips: big hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty - even when Prohibition kicks in - and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink of transformation. Addicts and bums roam the Bowery; homelessness is rampant. If Mazie won't help them, then who? When she opens the doors of The Venice to those in need, this ticket-taking, fun-time girl becomes the beating heart of the Lower East Side and, in defining one neighborhood, helps define the city. Then, more than 90 years after Mazie began her diary, it's discovered by a documentarian in search of a good story. Who was Mazie Phillips really? A chorus of voices from the past and present fill in some of the mysterious blanks of her adventurous life. Inspired by the life of a woman who was profiled in Joseph Mitchell's classic Up in the Old Hotel, Saint Mazie is infused with Jami Attenberg's signature wit, bravery, and heart. Mazie's rise to "sainthood" - and her irrepressible spirit - is unforgettable.
©2015 Jami Attenberg (P)2015 Hachette Audio
The Melting Season
Summary
From one of today’s hottest novelists and author of the best-selling The Middlesteins - a provocative story about friendship and self-discovery...
Catherine Madison left her small town in Nebraska after her husband deserted her. She’s also left behind her most shameful secrets - of a family and a marriage that have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she’s trying to become a new person. But running away from the past isn’t as easy as she’d hoped. Her journey leads her to Las Vegas, where she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she’d sworn she’d keep hidden, and teach her what human connection really means.
©2010 Jami Attenberg (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Nicht mein Ding
Summary
Andrea lebt in New York, ist 39, Single und kinderlos. Und sie ist es leid, sich für ihr Leben rechtfertigen zu müssen. Familie, Ehe, Kinder - einfach nicht ihr Ding. Während ihre beste Freundin Indigo gerade Mutter geworden ist, zieht Andrea alleine durch die Clubs, lässt sich auf eine Reihe von schrägen Dates ein und brüskiert mit ihrer unverblümten Art ein ums andere Mal ihr Umfeld. Andreas Rückzugsort ist ihr kleines Apartment. Von dort aus kann sie das Empire State Building sehen, das sie jeden Abend zeichnet. Stück für Stück offenbart sich ihre andere Seite: ihr geplatzter Traum von einem Leben als Künstlerin, ihr Aufwachsen mit einer überforderten Mutter, ihre Unsicherheit im Job, ihre gescheiterten Beziehungsversuche. Vor allem scheut Andrea die Begegnung mit ihrem Bruder und dessen todkranker Tochter, um die sich alle Gespräche der Familie drehen - bis sie sich eines Tages aus ihrer selbstgewählten Einsamkeit in die Wälder von New Hampshire aufmacht. Treffsicher und mit funkelndem Witz porträtiert Jami Attenberg eine Heldin, die keine sein will: unbequem und charmant, kompromisslos und verletzlich zugleich. Mit Musik von Benny Eisel.
©2020 Schöffling (P)2020 derDiwan Hörbuchverlag
All This Could Be Yours
Summary
“All hail Jami Attenberg, the queen of dysfunctional families.” (Refinery29) “Big Little Lies meets Succession in the scorching heat of the Big Easy.... Money, power and family are touched upon through Attenberg’s emotional, humorous and sharply written accounts.” (Parade) “This is how you write a very good novel about a very bad man.” (New York Times) From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: Think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer “If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex - a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister - feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all accounts, a bad man.) She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra. As Barbra fends off Alex’s unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. Meanwhile Gary, Alex’s brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. And Gary’s wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drug stores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits. Dysfunction is at its peak. As each family member grapples with Victor’s history, they must figure out a way to move forward - with one another, for themselves, and for the sake of their children. All This Could Be Yours is a timely, piercing exploration of what it means to be caught in the web of a toxic man who abused his power; it shows how those webs can tangle a family for generations and what it takes to - maybe, hopefully - break free. With her signature “sparkling prose” (Marie Claire) and incisive wit, Jami Attenberg deftly explores one of the most important subjects of our age.
©2019 Jami Attenberg (P)2019 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company