Divining Women

Gibbons, Kaye

ISBN 10: 0743536649 ISBN 13: 9780743536646

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2004

Synopsis

In 1918, as rumors of peace spread across America, the country is confronted by the onslaught of a deadly influenza epidemic, while Maureen Ross struggles to deal with a difficult pregnancy, her emotionally abusive husband Troop, and despair, until the arrival of Troop's niece, Mary Oliver, the sheltered child of a wealthy, freethinking family who sets out to protect her aunt. Read by Kaye Gibbons. Simultaneous.

About this title

About the Author:

Kaye Gibbons was twenty-eight when her first novel, Ellen Foster, was published. Walker Percy hailed it as "a lovely, sometimes heart-wrenching novel," while Eudora Welty called Gibbons "a stunning new writer." Six more novels followed, each gathering prizes and accolades. Divining Women is her seventh, the first to appear in six years. Gibbons lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her three daughters.

From AudioFile:

Gibbons reads her seventh novel with a graceful, hypnotic rhythm reminiscent of its North Carolina setting. Her painful story, however, is anything but hypnotic--it seethes with volcanic intensity. In autumn, 1918, at the emotionally strangling confluence of a flu epidemic and rumors of imminent peace, Maureen Ross makes two important discoveries: She is married to an emotionally frozen tyrant, and she is pregnant with his child. When her 22-year-old niece, Mary, comes to her rescue, Troop Ross appears bent on ripping apart any sense his wife has of her own worth. Can Mary's youthful fire spark renewed self-esteem in her aunt, or is it too late? Gibbons's wise restraint as a reader in some sense prepares us for the novel's ultimate explosion. P.E.F. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743536649
• ISBN 13: 9780743536646
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 5