Waiting for Eden: A Novel
Written by Elliot Ackerman
Narrated by MacLeod Andrews
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About this audiobook
From the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that traces the intersection of three star-crossed lives.
Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home—and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden's re-ordered consciousness comes flickering alive. As he begins to find a way to communicate, some troubling truths about his marriage—and about his life before he went to war—come to the surface. Is Eden the same man he once was: a husband, a friend, a father-to-be? What makes a life worth living? A piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty and betrayal, love and fear, Waiting for Eden is a tour de force of profound humanity.
Editor's Note
Dark & innovative…
Elliot Ackerman’s slim novel is like a punch in the gut. Sharp, surprising, and at times devastating, ‘Waiting for Eden’ deals with the broadest themes imaginable — life and death, love and grief — while remaining tightly focused on one injured soldier’s most intimate relationships. A terrific and innovative novel about the ways that war can tear apart a family, and a soldier, long before it tears apart the body.
Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. A former White House Fellow, his essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and Ecotone, among others. He currently lives in Istanbul where he writes on the Syrian Civil War. Green on Blue is his first novel.
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Reviews for Waiting for Eden
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5WOW! An amazing & heartbreaking story; definitely worth a listen .
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sad book. But well written and enjoyable to read. Liked the book very much.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not too many books make me cry. This one did. Such a haunting, emotional story. I'll be thinking of this one for a while.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was heartbreaking. Lovely drama. Like real drama story. Just great.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5VERY MOVING! Amazing writing. You can visualize everything so clearly
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing writing. Not a topical sentence in it, but definitely a sequel to Johnny Get You Gun. A postmodern Johnny. Postmodern because the world surrounding Eden and Mary is so fucked up that it can't be understood. Just think of all the vets in the world today who have fought and suffered for nothing in meaningless wars fought merciless deep state insanity. By not mentioning any of this the trials and tribulations of Eden and Mary are etched in stark outline.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was really good. I enjoyed it. Can't wait to read more by the author.