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Title: Crossing the Meadow
Author: Kfir Luzzatto
Narrator: Craig Randall Nickerson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-06-16
Publisher: PINE TEN, LLC
Genres: Fiction, Horror
Publisher's Summary:
A strange nightmare, a young woman in a foggy city, and a body buried underneath a bathtub. A little girl who can see her dead cat, an old blind woman, and a beautiful girl who died too young. They don't know what awaits them beyond that meadow, but they are determined to find out....
Crossing the Meadow guides you into the twilight zone, where dead people brush silently past the living ones and, often without noticing, affect their fate. Warning: Your perception of the space around you will never again be the same!
Members Reviews:
started off promising
Was a bit disappointed with the ending
What dreams may come
At first, you'd think it was a love story; the man, George, meets the beautiful girl, Clara, in a cafe, while he's on a trip back to his old hometown. They hit it off beautifully.
Then it seems to be a ghost story, as George and Clara are revealed to be spirits, their souls united, not by passion, but by mystery. A mystery that, in its seperate ways, has haunted each of them: Clara with a desire to know the truth of her death, an event no spirit can ever know, while George's almost equally intense desire to remain ignorant of that very same truth nearly overwhelms his own curiosity. It is Clara's drive to knowledge that propels the story, clinging to George for her precious, fading humanity, even as she coldly, almost ruthlessly, uses the living and dispatches of the dead who get in her way. But if Clara is the spirit of the book, George is its body, his own desire for peace leading him away from Clara to an exploration of the world he now inhabits, especially those who inhabit it with him.
For the true focus of the book is an examination, remarkably tender and often ironic, of the nature of humanity once the tedious business of living is removed. The burdens of life are great, and it is no surprise that the living fare poorly in this world. Yet the confusions and choices of life live on, and the realm of the dead is populated by those who are not free of them, those who are not ready, or occasionally not willing, to cross the meadow into whatever--heaven, nirvana, or perhaps oblivion--may lay beyond. George moves with them and among them, torn between his past and his present until a chance encounter clarifies his mind and he does what he must.
So, if the question is, is Crossing the Meadow a love story, an occult mystery, or a deeply human study of living and being, my answer is: Yes.
What Dreams May Come
At first, you'd think it was a love story; the man, George, meets the beautiful girl, Clara, in a cafe, while he's on a trip back to his old hometown. They hit it off beautifully.
Then it seems to be a ghost story, as George and Clara are revealed to be spirits, their souls united, not by passion, but by mystery. A mystery that, in its seperate ways, has haunted each of them: Clara with a desire to know the truth of her death, an event no spirit can ever know, while George's almost equally intense desire to remain ignorant of that very same truth nearly overwhelms his own curiosity. It is Clara's drive to knowledge that propels the story, clinging to George for her precious, fading humanity, even as she coldly, almost ruthlessly, uses the living and dispatches of the dead who get in her way.
