Wellness

A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

De: Nathan Hill

Narrado por: Ari Fliakos

Duración: 18 h y 56 m

Resumen del Editor

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart.

"A stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time—it's beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.”—NPR

When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria.

For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.

©2023 Nathan Hill (P)2023 Random House Audio

Excellent family saga

Compelling, intelligent, interesting and realistically contemporary. Narrator so good as well. I had a hard time interrupting the narrative to proceed with less interesting daily requirements on my time.

Just wow

This book is spectacular ❤️❤️❤️… what insight…it helps cleanse the film if belief that blocks our sight‼️

I wasn't prepared for the way this hit home

I was expecting the story about the arc of a marriage. What I wasn't expecting was the story of a parent who's gone down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and fear/anger. This book hit home so hard, fleshing its central characters out so well that you could never seal a judgement about any one of them. My only gripe would be that there were still a handful who weren't afforded this treatment.... sequel/prequel, please?

Narrator rocks!

The story was a bit depressing at times but the writing was so good. The narrator is fantastic and I’ll be looking for more books featuring him.

Nathan Hill is my favorite author!

I preordered this book because I loved The Nix so very much. Now I can’t decide which one is better. Both The Nix and Wellness are in the top five books I’ve read in the last ten years and I’m eagerly waiting for the next one by Nathan Hill. As with The Nix, I’ll begin listening to Wellness for the second time tomorrow after it sinks in a little more. Nathan Hill is my favorite author!

By best read of 2023!

Impeccable narration of a beautiful novel with deeply moving characters and a thoughtful exploration of the human condition.

I loved every minute of it. Even the painful moments were beautifully written and performed.

Everything

Ari Fliakos is the best narrator ever. Always. And this book is amazing, thoughtful, touching, annoying when it needs to be, and fun.

Just a very different story with lots of elements!

The complexities of the characters and the relevance to current events made the book interesting on many different levels!

Fun book with some thought provoking ideas

I really enjoyed this book. It kept my interest and was very funny in some places. There were a few spots things did not hang together as well, but overall, I highly recommend it.

story unfolded slowly

this book took a long time for me to get behind it. it jumped around to different points of view and different times.