Mouthful of Birds

Stories

By: Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell - translator

Narrated by: Various

A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star.

Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection.

Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications, leaving your pulse racing, and the line between the real and the strange blur.


Audiobook table of contents:
Headlights, read by Erin Bennett
Preserves, read by Allyson Ryan
Butterflies, read by Mark Bramhall
Mouthful of Birds, read by Kaleo Griffith
Santa Claus Sleeps at Our House, read by Kirby Heyborne
The Digger, read by Rob Shapiro
Irman, read by Mark Deakins
The Test, read by Fred Sanders
Toward Happy Civilization, read by Mark Bramhall
Olingiris, read by Erin Bennett
My Brother Walter, read by Arthur Morey
The Merman, read by Hillary Huber
Rage of Pestilence, read by Paul Boehmer
Heads Against Concrete, read by Robbie Daymond
The Size of Things, read by Fred Sanders
Underground, read by Ray Porter
Slowing Down, read by Danny Campbell
On the Steppe, read by Cassandra Campbell
A Great Effort, read by John H. Mayer
The Heavy Suitcase of Benavides, read by Josh Horowitz

hmmm...

While enjoyed the book, i had a hard time staying engaged with it at times. Some of the stories were amazing, other not so much. I found the style to be lightly disjointed as they quite often are beautiful snippets taken from their context and displayed as glimpses through a peephole. I like that. but it was hard listen to in longer sessions as I found I needed to pause and absorb what I'd heard or lose it as background clutter to my day. And these stories deserved remembering.

Don’t bother

Stories were boring and incomplete. This book was extremely overrated. I’d recommend skipping this and choosing a different novel. Waste of time.