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Title: For All the Obvious Reasons

Subtitle: And Other Stories

Author: Lynn Stegner

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

For All the Obvious Reasons is Lynn Stegner's superb collection of nine remarkably distinct tales of passion, clear-eyed wisdom, and honesty honed to a cutting edge. These are stories the listener can't shake: A woman living a marital shadow life realizes that her long compensating heart has begun to ominously decompensate. An affluent New Yorker becomes a hoarder to escape a future he cannot bear to take up. A baby dies in a miasma of sibling resentments, and from that the secrets of culpability unravel. A construction worker and a bereaved young neighbor together find a way to be in a broken world. And in the beautifully moving narrative that closes the volume, a story about the depth of goodness and duty and of the profound love they both define and prevent.

From the wild rivers of British Columbia to the cement jungle of Manhattan, Stegner pulls us from our own worlds into her own. With luminous particulars and in richly orchestrated language, these stories sound the vibrant, sometimes anguished music that composes human lives.

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Members Reviews:

And Some Not So Obvious

When I read the first story of this collection, I was not sure that I was going to like it - but with each page I read, I appreciated the author's perceptions more and more. There is a calmness to her writing that belies the emotion and depth of each narrative. The characters are well-drawn and none of the stories are ordinary. It is a collection that I think needs to be read more than once, with a space of time in-between - one that will give new insights with each reading. The only criticism I have is that there just aren't as many stories as I would like to explore. A beautiful work.

Genius

Each story is a jewel. The writing is careful, masterful... The word beautiful doesn't do it justice. This book deserves the widest possible audience.

Four Stars

Ms Stegner is a gifted writer, weaving vivid images with delicately observed sensibilities.

Powerful, engaging stories

These wonderfully written, highly engaging stories are rich with insight into a range of very different characters, revealed by finding the character at a turning point in his/her life. In my personal favorite, a seemingly patient woman's suffused rage surfaces to prevent her son from adopting his father's worst character traits. In another, we follow a young woman's mood shifts over a 24-hour period as they signal a shift in her life direction. Stegner never explains too much, and she captures brilliantly the sometimes tender, sometimes violent, creepy thoughts that exist just below the surface of polite discourse.

The stories have a powerful sense of place, with vivid physical details that propel the reader right into the scene with the characters.