EPISODE · Aug 17, 2020 · 5 MIN
The Heart Begins Here by Jacqueline Dumas
from Get Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Kattie Abernathy
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart Begins Here Author: Jacqueline Dumas Narrator: Michelle C. Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 17, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The Heart Begins Here is the story of the ever-optimistic, earnest Sara Requier and her disintegrating seven-year relationship with the cynical Wanda Wysoka. Along with her relationship struggles, Sara must contend with the drastic changes in the book industry that threaten her feminist bookstore and a mother who refuses to accept her daughter's lesbianism. Then, just as Wanda decides to leave Sara, Wanda's new young lover, Cindy, is murdered. The story takes place in a western Canadian city in 2001 - much of it in Sara's bookstore, Common Reader Books - in the shadow of the disturbing political climate that followed the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. This is a transitional point in the Canadian book industry: the proliferation of big box stores, the expansion of the Internet - and Sara is caught up in the concomitant changes in her community. The book explores themes of love and loss, of the lingering effects of a dysfunctional childhood, of misogyny, of personal and societal homophobia, and especially the challenge of integrating the personal with the political.
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