Rainy Fields has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 60 ratings. The most-rated is Heart Berries.
Heart Berries
Summary
Canada Reads 2019 longlist. National best seller. New York Times best seller. Finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards. Longlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize. Winner of the Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize. Winner of the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature. Winner of the 2019 Whiting Award for Nonfiction. A New York Times Editor's Choice. Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. A Globe and Mail best book of 2018. Shortlisted for the 2019 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction. A New York Times Editor's Choice. A Globe and Mail best book of 2018. A CBC best book of 2018. A Toronto Star best book of 2018. A Walrus best book of 2018. An NPR best book of 2018. A Chatelaine best book of 2018. A Bustle best book of 2018. A GQ best book of 2018. A Thrillist best book of 2018. A Book Riot best book of 2018. An Electric Lit best book of 2018. An Entropy best book of 2018. A Hill Times best book of 2018. A BookPage best book of 2018. A Library Journal best book of 2018. A Goodreads best book of 2018. A New York Public Library best book of 2018. Named one of the most anticipated books of 2018 by: Chatelaine, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Huffington Post, B*tch, NYLON, BuzzFeed, Bustle, The Rumpus, and Goodreads. Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018. Guileless and refreshingly honest, Terese Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the reservation. Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II, Terese Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father - an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist - who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot "trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain and what we can bring ourselves to accept." Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.
©2018 Terese Marie Mailhot (P)2018 Doubleday Canada
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
Summary
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them just fine. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts, and tins of pineapple chunks---not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions, and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian clerking classes, it hilariously captured the spirit of its age.
Public Domain (P)2011 Tantor
Our Beloved Kin
Summary
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England, reading the actions of actors during the 17th century alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history.
©2018 Lisa Brooks (P)2019 Tantor