Katie Williams has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 8 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is Tell the Machine Goodnight.
Tell the Machine Goodnight
Summary
Smart and inventive, an emotional and addictive novel that considers the elusive definition of happiness. Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of "pursuit of happiness". As his mother, Pearl wants nothing more than to help Rhett - but is it for his sake or for hers? Certainly it would make Pearl happier. Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job - not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either. Told from an alternating cast of endearing characters from within Pearl and Rhett's world, Tell the Machine Goodnight delivers a smartly moving and entertaining story about relationships and the ways that they can most surprise and define us. Along the way, Katie Williams playfully illuminates our national obsession with positive psychology, and our reliance on quick fixes and technology. What happens when these obsessions begin to overlap? With warmth, humor, and a clever touch, Williams taps into our collective unease about the modern world and allows us see it a little more clearly.
©2018 Katie Williams (P)2018 Penguin Audio
Journey of the Heart
Summary
Journey of the Heart is the journal written by 17-year-old Katie after she lost her teenage brother to suicide. These private, raw, and unedited pages of her journal are a companion for anyone who has been impacted by suicide. This book shows them they are not alone and there is hope.
©2004 Katie Williams (P)2013 Katie Williams
The Space Between Trees
Summary
Not your everyday coming-of-age novel. This story was supposed to be about Evie - how she hasn't made a friend in years, how she tends to stretch the truth (especially about her so-called relationship with college drop-out Jonah Luks), and how she finally comes into her own once she learns to just be herself. But it isn't. Because when her classmate Elizabeth "Zabet" McCabe's murdered body is found in the woods, everything changes and Evie's life is never the same again.
©2010 Katie Williams (P)2012 Audible, Inc.