Tiffany McDaniel has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 2.8★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is Betty.
Betty
Summary
One of the Best Books of the Year The Guardian • Glamour A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl and the family truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "A girl comes of age against the knife." So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a White mother and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit in the rural town of Breathed, Ohio, is one of poverty and violence - both from outside the family and, devastatingly, from within. The lush landscape, rich with birdsong, wild fruit, and blazing stars, becomes a kind of refuge for Betty, but when her family's darkest secrets are brought to light, she has no choice but to reckon with the brutal history hiding in the hills, as well as the heart-wrenching cruelties and incredible characters she encounters. Despite the hardships she faces, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters, and her father's brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all to which she bears witness, Betty discovers an escape: She begins to write. She recounts the horrors of her family's past and present with pen and paper and buries them deep in the dirt - moments that have stung her so deeply she could not share them, until now. Inspired by generations of her family, Tiffany McDaniel sets out to free the past by delivering this heartbreaking yet magical story - a remarkable novel that establishes her as one of the most important voices in American fiction.
©2020 Tiffany McDaniel (P)2020 Random House Audio
The Summer That Melted Everything
Summary
Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the long, crazy summer of 1984, when a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio. It was the year he became friends with the devil. Sal seems to appear out of nowhere - a bruised and tattered 13-year-old boy claiming to be the devil himself answering an invitation. Fielding Bliss, the son of a local prosecutor, brings him home, where he's welcomed into the Bliss family, who assume he's a runaway from a nearby farm town. When word spreads that the devil has come to Breathed, not everyone is happy to welcome this self-proclaimed fallen angel. Murmurs follow him, and tensions rise along with the temperatures as an unbearable heat wave rolls into town right along with him. As strange accidents start to occur, some in the town, riled by the feverish heat, start to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be. While the Bliss family wrestles with their own personal demons, a fanatic drives the town to the brink of a catastrophe that will change this sleepy Ohio backwater forever.
©2016 Tiffany McDaniel (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Betty [French Version]
Summary
"Ce livre est à la fois une danse, un chant et un éclat de lune, mais par-dessus tout, l'histoire qu'il raconte est, et restera à jamais, celle de la Petite Indienne." La Petite Indienne, c'est Betty Carpenter, née dans une baignoire, sixième de huit enfants. Sa famille vit en marge de la société car, si sa mère est blanche, son père est cherokee. Lorsque les Carpenter s'installent dans la petite ville de Breathed, après des années d'errance, le paysage luxuriant de l'Ohio semble leur apporter la paix. Avec ses frères et soeurs, Betty grandit bercée par la magie immémoriale des histoires de son père. Mais les plus noirs secrets de la famille se dévoilent peu à peu. Pour affronter le monde des adultes, Betty puise son courage dans l'écriture : elle confie sa douleur à des pages qu'elle enfouit sous terre au fil des années. Pour qu'un jour toutes ces histoires n'en forment plus qu'une, qu'elle pourra enfin révéler. Betty raconte les mystères de l'enfance et la perte de l'innocence. À travers la voix de sa jeune narratrice, qu'Audrey d'Hulstère incarne à la perfection, Tiffany McDaniel chante le pouvoir réparateur des mots et donne naissance à une héroïne universelle.
©2020 / 2020 Tiffany McDaniel, The Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC / Editions Gallmeister (P)2020 Audiolib