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Title: Running

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Cara Hoffman

Narrator: Kate Handford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as runners - hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they create their own kind of family as they struggle to survive. Whether in the red light district of Athens or the world of fire jumpers in the Pacific Northwest, we are always in a space of gorgeously wrought otherness. Running shows novelist Cara Hoffman to be writing at the peak of her craft.

Members Reviews:

Very interesting novel.....

A solid 3.75! This is the first time that I have read Cara Hoffman's work, and I don't think it would be the last. I found this novel to be very interesting in subject matter. I felt that the novel flowed very well. The story is set in Athens Greece, and we are introduced to a cast of characters who are known as "runners." Runners are individuals who entrap tourists from buses and trains in the area, and persuade them to stay at hotels/brothels in order to get a kick back from the establishments in order survive.

I loved the premise, and the characters were very interesting in themselves. I wish that the author would have expanded a bit in the narrative, allowing readers to get to know the characters a bit more, also I wish that I would have gotten to know the tourists as well, which this is not really covered throughout the novel, we are left to wonder where these people came from, what they were thinking about the runners they encountered, would have been nice to get a piece of that dialogue. Overall, great story, enjoyable, a decent read, with some improvement needed.

Cara Hoffman is doing some amazing work

Hoffman's vision is demanding. She writes about broken systems (the patriarchy, America itself, and in Running, broken families). Her characters are people who live in the cracksâassault survivors, veterans, the homeless, the mentally ill. She gives them a kind of freedom, a savage independence despite their extreme vulnerability. Her first-person protagonist, Bridey, articulates what exactly is needed to survive not only a nuclear holocaust, but the world as it is: "You have to be strong to be one of the last people on earth. Strong enough to see if there are other survivors. Strong enough to live alone for years, looking."

Iâll grant it: reading her is a tense space. Yet I admire her work exactly because thereâs something unrelenting about it, a kind of âWhere do we go from here, broken as everything is?â She doesnât put up with illusions or luxury. Her writing is strongly moral in its dead rejection of status quo and unearned privilege. Thereâs a hardness to her fiction, no place to rest unless youâve already given up on the system in question and proven that you can survive on your own. Hoffman wants us to be uncomfortable.

The discomfort, though, is part of what makes her work so thought-provoking. And in Running, she gives us a trio of sharply imagined expats in Athens, whose hustle for basic necessities take them further into dangerous territory, toward a decision that resonates across decades.