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Title: The Scent of Pine

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Lara Vapnyar

Narrator: Elizabeth Evans

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Throughout her acclaimed, award-winning career, novelist Lara Vapnyar has consistently impressed critics with her striking honesty, empathy, and humor - yet never before have Vapnyar's talents been as perfectly matched or shone as brightly as in her captivating latest novel, The Scent of Pine.

Though Lena is only thirty-eight, she finds herself in the grip of a midlife crisis. She feels out of place in her adoptive country, her career has stalled, and her marriage has tumbled into a spiral of apathy and distrust - it seems impossible she will ever find happiness again. But then she meets Ben, a failed artist turned reluctant academic, who is just as lost as she is. They strike up a precarious friendship and soon surprise themselves by embarking on an impulsive weekend adventure.

On the drive to Ben's remote cabin in Maine, Lena begins to open up, for the first time in her life, about the tumultuous summer she spent as a counselor in a Soviet children's camp twenty years earlier, when she was just discovering romance and her own sexuality. At a time when Russia itself was in turmoil, the once-placid world of the camp was growing equally unsettled, with unexplained disappearances and mysterious goings - on among the staff; Lena and her best friend are haunted by what they witnessed, or failed to witness, and by the fallout from those youthful relationships. It was a time of intense emotions, confusion, and passions, and ultimately very little turned out to be exactly as it seemed.

As Lena reveals to Ben secrets she has long kept hidden, the lovers begin to discover together not only the striking truths buried in her past, but also more immediate lessons about the urgency of this short, stolen time they have together.

A stirring, sexy, and breathtaking novel with an unforgettable twist, The Scent of Pine is both a poignant love story and a provocative tale of loneliness, longing, youthful romanticism, and the fickle nature of desire.

Members Reviews:

But it is principally the story of how two chronically unhappy people come together in somewhat improbable circumstances to offe

This novel alternates between the past and present, and between two countries. It is, partially, a study of how events can be subject to various plausible interpretations while their true meaning is long hidden even from principal participants. But it is principally the story of how two chronically unhappy people come together in somewhat improbable circumstances to offer each other the chance of genuine happiness, at last. This romance is devoid of sentimentality and cliche, deftly observed, well written, honest, and authentic.

A fabulous story

A lyrical but true to life reflection on first loves, marriage, and an unending yearning for capturing the elusive sense of happiness, safety, and feeling understood by another human being, written in an eloquent, poignant, yet often funny way, with a perspective that can only be found by those who have crossed landscapes, language, and cultures to arrive in the United States.

Re-examination of the past (4.25*s)

A scent of pine, forests, and a sense of isolation figure prominently in this spare novel that centers on nearly forty-something Lena, a Russian immigrant living in Boston with her husband and two children. She is unhappy: her marriage is no better than a standoff and her career as an adjunct instructor is going nowhere.