We Can Only Save Ourselves - Alison Wisdom Audiobook

Written by Alison Wisdom
Read by Jesse Vilinsky
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: We Can Only Save Ourselves
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Alison Wisdom
Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: HarperAudio
ISBN: 9780063067943
Subjects: Fiction, Literature

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 10
Total Size: 301 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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“Alison Wisdom’s addictive, down-the-rabbit-hole debut reads like The
Girls by way of The Virgin Suicides, with an extra dash of Cheever’s
unsettling suburbia. The result is sinister and surprising: a novel I
couldn’t put down, and one that I kept thinking about long after I’d
reached its unexpected, chilling end.” —Emily Temple, author of The
Lightness
One of Newsweek, Bustle, and LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books and
Goodreads’ “Debut Novels to Discover in 2021,” We Can Only Save
Ourselves is the story of one teenage girl’s unlikely indoctrination
and the reverberations in the tight-knit community she leaves behind.
Alice Lange’s neighbors are proud to know her—a high-achieving
student, cheerleader, and all-around good citizen, she’s a perfect
emblem of their sunny neighborhood. The night before she’s expected to
be crowned Homecoming Queen, though, she commits an act of vandalism,
then disappears, following a magnetic stranger named Wesley to a
bungalow in another part of the state. There, he promises, Alice can
be her true self, shedding the shackles of conformity.
At the bungalow, however, she learns that four other young women
seeking enlightenment and adventure have already followed him there.
Her new lifestyle is intoxicating at first, but as Wesley’s demands on
all of them increase, the house becomes a pressure cooker—until one
day they reach the point of no return.
Back home, the story of Alice’s disappearance and radicalization is
framed by the first-person plural chorus of the mothers who knew her
before, who worry about her, but also resent the tear she made in the
fabric of their perfect world, one that exposes the question: Isn’t
suburbia a kind of cult unto itself?
Combining the sharp social critique of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires
Everywhere with the elegiac beauty of Emma Cline’s The Girls, this is
a fierce literary debut from a writer to watch.