Ramona Ausubel has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 10 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Awayland.
Awayland
Summary
An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion. Acclaimed for the grace, wit, and magic of her novels, Ramona Ausubel introduces us to a geography both fantastic and familiar in eleven new stories, some of them previously published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Elegantly structured, these stories span the globe and beyond, from small-town America and sunny Caribbean islands to the Arctic Ocean and the very gates of Heaven itself. And though some of the stories are steeped in mythology, they remain grounded in universal experiences: loss of identity, leaving home, parenthood, joy, and longing. Crisscrossing the pages of Awayland are travelers and expats, shadows and ghosts. A girl watches as her homesick mother slowly dissolves into literal mist. The mayor of a small Midwestern town offers a strange prize, for stranger reasons, to the parents of any baby born on Lenin's birthday. A chef bound for Mars begins an even more treacherous journey much closer to home. And a lonely heart searches for love online - never mind that he's a Cyclops. With her signature tenderness, Ramona Ausubel applies a mapmaker's eye to landscapes both real and imagined, all the while providing a keen guide to the wild, uncharted terrain of the human heart. Audiobook Table of Contents: "You Can Find Love Now," read by Kirby Heyborne with Emily Rankin "Fresh Water From the Sea," read by Rebecca Lowman "Template for a Proclamation to Save the Species," read by Danny Campbell "Mother Land," read by Cassandra Campbell "Departure Lounge," read by Kate Rudd "Remedy," read by Karissa Vacker "Club Zeus," read by Macleod Andrews "High Desert," read by Amanda Carlin "Heaven," read by Vikas Adam "The Animal Mummies Wish to Thank the Following," read by Bruce Mann "Do Not Save the Ferocious, Save the Tender," read by Mark Bramhall
©2018 Ramona Ausubel (P)2018 Penguin Audio
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
Summary
From the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us comes an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune - and its bearings. Labor Day 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar - married with three children - are happily preparing for a family birthday celebration when they learn that the unimaginable has occurred: There is no more money. More specifically, there's no more money in the estate of Fern's recently deceased parents, which, as the sole source of Fern and Edgar's income, had allowed them to live this beautiful, comfortable life despite their professed anti-money ideals. Quickly the once-charmed family unravels. In distress and confusion, Fern and Edgar are each tempted away on separate adventures: she on a road trip with a stranger, he on an ill-advised sailing voyage with another woman. The three children are left for days with no guardian whatsoever in an improvised Neverland helmed by the tender, witty, and resourceful Cricket, age nine. Brimming with humanity and wisdom, humor and bite, and imbued with both the whimsical and the profound, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty is a story of American wealth, class, family, and mobility approached by award-winner Ramona Ausubel with a breadth of imagination and understanding that is fresh, surprising, and exciting.
©2016 Ramona Ausubel (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
A Guide to Being Born
Summary
A Guide to Being Born is organized around the stages of life - love, conception, gestation, birth - and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents, looking toward the end of life. In each of these eleven stories Ausubel's stunning imagination and humor are moving, entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the familiar world in a new way. In "Atria" a pregnant teenager believes she will give birth to any number of strange animals rather than a human baby; in "Catch and Release" a girl discovers the ghost of a Civil War hero living in the woods behind her house; and in "Tributaries" people grow a new arm each time they fall in love.
©2013 Ramona Ausubel (P)2013 Dreamscape Media, LLC
No One Is Here Except All of Us
Summary
In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years, but now, there is nowhere else to go. At the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. And for years, there is boundless hope. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one, and soon our narrator - the girl, grown into a young mother—must flee her village to find her husband and save her children - and propel them toward a real and hopeful future.
©2012 Ramona Ausubel (P)2012 Dreamscape Media
WordTheatre: Heart Matters, Volume 1
Summary
WordTheatre, the short story performance specialists, casts the perfect actors to bring great contemporary writing to life. Recorded live with the authors present, these nine exquisitely crafted stories explore the emotional complications of this thing called love. From the intoxication of a first crush to the devastation of a broken heart, take a journey through the anguish and ecstasy of human emotions. Hallee Hirsh reading "The Ages" by Ramona Ausubel Mark Moses reading "The Meeting" by Aimee Bender Nicholas Brendon & Kirsten Vangsness reading "Billboard" by Richard Bausch Mary Stuart Masterson reading "A Preference for Native Tongue" by Don Lee Sharon Lawrence reading "Widow" by Michelle Latiolais Elisabeth Moss reading "Note to Sixth-Grade Self" by Julie Orringer Kathryn Erbe reading "Out of the Fray" by Mary Gordon Dinah Lenney reading "When Writing Is an Emergency" by Mary Otis Maggie Siff reading "Double-Blind" by Alethea Black Produced and directed by Cedering Fox; edited by Sara Bencivenga; mixed and mastered by Theo Mondle; music composed by Greg Chun. WordTheatre gives voice to great writing. We are an innovative, internationally recognized, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring empathy, curiosity, and conversation through powerful and entertaining performances, both live and recorded, of the world's best contemporary literature. We aim to ignite a passion for reading, writing, and self-expression in our community and in future generations.
©2014 Cedering Fox (P)2014 WordTheatre