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    Heaven Adjacent
    Heaven Adjacent
    Heaven Adjacent
    Audiobook9 hours

    Heaven Adjacent

    Written by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde is heartfelt and perceptive in this bittersweet story about slowing down and discovering what can be gained when leaving everything behind.

    Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return.

    In the foothills of the Adirondacks, Roseanna discovers the perfect hideout in a ramshackle farm. Its seventy-six acres are rich with possibilities and full of surprises, including a mother and daughter squatting on the property. Although company is the last thing Roseanna wants, she reluctantly lets them stay.

    Roseanna and the young girl begin sculpting junk found around the farm into zoo animals, drawing more newcomers—including her estranged son, Lance. He pleads with Roseanna to return to the city, but she’s finally discovered where she belongs. It may not provide the solitude she originally sought, but her heart has found room for much more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 19, 2018
    ISBN9781543678154
    Heaven Adjacent
    Author

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of thirty-three published books. Her bestselling 1999 novel, Pay It Forward, adapted into a major Warner Bros. motion picture, made the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults list and was translated into more than two dozen languages for distribution in more than thirty countries. Her novels Becoming Chloe and Jumpstart the World were included on the ALA’s Rainbow List; Jumpstart the World was also a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards and won Rainbow Awards in two categories. The Language of Hoofbeats won a Rainbow Award. More than fifty of her short stories have been published in many journals, including the Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and the Sun, and in the anthologies Santa Barbara Stories and California Shorts, as well as the bestselling anthology Dog Is My Co-Pilot. Her short fiction received honorable mention in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, a second-place win for the Tobias Wolff Award, and nominations for Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Three have also been cited in Best American Short Stories. Hyde is the founder and former president of the Pay It Forward Foundation. As a professional public speaker, she has addressed the National Conference on Education, twice spoken at Cornell University, met with AmeriCorps members at the White House, and shared a dais with Bill Clinton. An avid equestrian, photographer, and traveler, she lives in California.

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    • 5/5
      Brilliant story and very pertinent. Not as good as Have you seen Luis Verez ? But just as poignant.

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    • 5/5
      I want to live in every single story she writes. Positive stories always. And as always I’ll miss my new friends, Roseanna, Lance, Martin etc. Now in to the next story! Love you CHR!
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the story and the narration was very good.
    • 5/5
      I just started reading Catherine Ryan Hyde‘s books about a year ago so far I’ve read probably seven or eight. None of them have disappointed me. Some of them have slow starts but none of them are disappointing me. This one was also very good.
    • 5/5
      There is so much about human emotions in Hyde's books---I find ways to learn and live by in every single book she has written. There is always so much more there than just the story but her characters provide a way to show just how good things could be as they work through the ups and downs she has them live through in her books.
    • 4/5
      ksBrowse ▾Community ▾Search books4623Debbie KrenzerDebbie Krenzer's Reviews > Heaven AdjacentHeaven Adjacent by Catherine Ryan HydeHeaven Adjacent by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Goodreads Author) 12691311Debbie Krenzer's review Jun 21, 2018 · editreally liked itbookshelves: ebooks, net-galley-books This was definitely the quirkiest bunch of characters I've ever seen all in one book. Roseanna is a high powered attorney who snaps when her best friend and law partner suddenly dies. She decides to go for a ride in her Maserati and winds up buying a piece of property that includes 76 acres near the Adirondack Mountains.No only does Roseanna get those 76 acres with hills, creeks, a barn and a small guesthouse, she also gets squatters. It's a story about a lot of things including finding yourself, finding and connecting with your adult son again, helping others, and love in many phases.I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and getting to know these quirky characters. I chuckled many times while reading this book. Definitely entertaining!Thanks to Lake Union Publishing and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
    • 4/5
      My Review of “Heaven Adjacent” by Catherine Ryan Hyde Lake Union Publishing, June 19, 2018I appreciated and enjoyed the thought-provoking novel ” Heaven Adjacent” by Catherine Ryan Hyde. The Genres for this novel are Fiction and Women’s Fiction. What would you do if a tragedy made you re-evaluate everything in your life? How would you handle a terrible tragedy?Roseanna Chaldecott is a high-powered and successful attorney in Manhattan. Roseanna is wealthy and has the opportunity to live in a materialistic and extremely comfortable way. When Roseanna’s partner and best friend pass away unexpectedly, she takes off in her Maserati, unsure of where she is going or what she is going to do.The author describes the colorful cast of characters as complex, complicated, quirky and unpredictable. This is a story of second chances, searching for what is important, finding meaning, love and forgiveness. It is also a story about finding where you belong, and where your home and heart is.Roseanna, finds over seventy acres of land and is looking for serenity, peace and quiet. She purchases the land without really looking at everything. What Roseanna doesn’t realize is that she does have a story to tell. Also she seems to find a knack of finding some quirky people, and animals that already are living on the land. Roseanna thinks she wants a simple life. She has to climb a steep hill to use her cell- phone. In reality, she is hiding.A newspaper reporter is fascinated by Roseanna’s story and writes about it in the newspaper. When it is published, her estranged son Lance comes to take her home. Her partner threatens if she doesn’t return to the law practice he will sue her for everything.This is a heartwarming novel that I highly recommend to readers of Women’s Fiction. Of course, some of my favorite parts center around the animals in the story. I received an ARC from NetGalley for my honest review.
    • 4/5
      Roseanna, a New York City attorney, decides to run away from her life. The death of Roseanna's best friend and law partner, Alice, had a profound affect on her. One morning Roseanna just decides to drive until her car runs out of gas and that's when she finds the farmhouse for sale and decides to buy it. Roseanna was in search of silence and solitude and thought she found it until she realized there were people living on her property and more were to show up. A journalist does a story about Roseanna and the animal sculptures decorating her yard, which causes her son and eventually her other law partner to find her. She didn't want want them to try and take her back to the city. Roseanna ends up with several people living on her land, a dog and a very old smelly horse. All end up becoming her family.I LOVED Allie and Bea, Leaving Blythe River and The Wake Up, so I was hoping I would enjoy this book and not be disappointed. I definitely wasn't. This book isn't action packed, it deals with family relationships, forgiveness and loss. It's simply the story of Roseanna as she copes with life changes, mending her relationship with her son and creating a new family. I enjoyed the interactions Roseanna had with her squatters and definitely Ernest. I loved the story line, characters and writing style. I'm glad I don't have to walk up a mountain every time I needed to used the phone!!!I highly recommend the book and look forward to the next one. Thanks to NetGalley, Lake Union Publishing and the author, Catherine Ryan Hyde, for a free electronic ARC of this novel