Audiobook17 hours
From a Sealed Room
Written by Rachel Kadish
Narrated by Rebecca Gibel
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
In this affecting, perceptive novel, Rachel Kadish reflects on the ghosts of the past, the tensions of war, and the difficult bonds of family.
When Maya enrolls at Hebrew University in Jerusalem shortly after the Gulf War, she hopes to leave New York and a fraught relationship with her mother behind her. In Israel, she gets to know her older cousin Tami, a housewife whose home has a room sealed against the war's Scud missile attacks. Like Maya, Tami feels distanced from the people closest to her-her mother, her husband, her only son. But it will ultimately be Maya's visits with Shifra, an elderly recluse and Holocaust survivor who lives in the apartment below her, that give Maya the courage to confront her problems and break free of the burdens of her past.
When Maya enrolls at Hebrew University in Jerusalem shortly after the Gulf War, she hopes to leave New York and a fraught relationship with her mother behind her. In Israel, she gets to know her older cousin Tami, a housewife whose home has a room sealed against the war's Scud missile attacks. Like Maya, Tami feels distanced from the people closest to her-her mother, her husband, her only son. But it will ultimately be Maya's visits with Shifra, an elderly recluse and Holocaust survivor who lives in the apartment below her, that give Maya the courage to confront her problems and break free of the burdens of her past.
Author
Rachel Kadish
RACHEL KADISH is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, and of the novella I Was Here. Her work has appeared on NPR and in The New York Times, Ploughshares, and Tin House.
More audiobooks from Rachel Kadish
The Weight of Ink Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I WAS HERE Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to From a Sealed Room
Related audiobooks
My Notorious Life: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5City of Veils: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Nouf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of V.: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourteenth of September: A Novel Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Gateway to the Moon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Snow in August: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Children and Fire: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tenth Muse: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kantika Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Letters of William Woolf Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Family Tabor: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNight in Shanghai Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Here We Are Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dear Fang, With Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Believers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The World to Come Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEast of the Sun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boston Girl: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Houseguest Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Midwife of Venice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Single Rose Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5We Are Gathered Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Peculiar Ground: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cold Mountain Stream Meditation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAway Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Journey To The End Of The Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eternal Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Family Life For You
Evil Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Collected Regrets of Clover: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Idea of You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bodyguard: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reminders of Him: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Joy Luck Club Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to See Here Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Regretting You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Found You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Then She Was Gone: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nineteen Steps: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe in Another Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mask of Sanity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Forever, Interrupted: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Where the Forest Meets the Stars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Winter Garden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bird Box: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Five Years: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nineteen Minutes: A novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home: the most moving and heartfelt novel you'll read this year Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Time's Mouth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not Forever, But For Now Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Commonwealth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Racing in the Rain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The People We Keep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for From a Sealed Room
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews