The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel | Lindsay Stern

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel Author: Lindsay Stern Narrator: Macleod Andrews, Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 19, 2019 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'An unabashedly smart and affecting portrait of the strains of a marriage.' —Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie  Meet Ivan and Prue: a married couple - both experts in language and communication - who nevertheless cannot seem to communicate with each other Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife, Prue, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics, she is bold and vibrant, full of life and feeling. Thus far, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with the arrival of the college's dashing but insufferable new writer-in-residence, whose novel Prue always seems to be reading? Into this delicate moment barrels Ivan's unstable father-in-law, Frank, in town to hear Prue deliver a lecture on birdsong that is set to cement her tenure application. But the talk doesn't go as planned, unleashing a series of crises that force Ivan to finally confront the problems in his marriage, and to begin to fight - at last - for what he holds dear. A dazzlingly insightful and entertaining novel about the limitations of language, the fragility of love, and the ways we misunderstand each other and ourselves, The Study of Animal Languages marks the debut of a brilliant new voice in fiction.