Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir
Written by Susannah Kennedy
Narrated by Marnye Young
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
Jane is to the world a charismatic personality—opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful—who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protégé, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by her mother's narcissistic tale, especially as Susannah becomes a mother herself.
But then Jane at seventy-five, healthy and fit, chooses suicide, leaving her daughter with grief and the unwelcome gift of forty-five years of hidden diaries. Daring to "read" Jane after her death is like unlatching Pandora's Box. For a year, Susannah twists and turns to the truths she uncovers, comparing what she remembers with what her mother put down in words. As Susannah Kennedy relives her life through her mother's eyes, she grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make.
Susannah Kennedy
Berkeley and Oxford-educated anthropologist Susannah Kennedy was born in India and raised in the United States. Later, she traveled extensively on her own, first in Italy, and then through the Middle East and India, settling for two years in Egypt before becoming a reporter in Dallas, Texas. At Oxford University, she specialized in Arab culture and politics, receiving her DPhil in social anthropology. She and her psychoanalyst husband lived and worked in Germany, raising three children in a thatched-roof farmhouse in the countryside outside Hamburg. Her mother’s suicide and its aftermath brought them back to Santa Cruz, California in 2017. They now reside in Marin County.
Related to Reading Jane
Related audiobooks
Happiness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angel Fire: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Log-Cabin Lady Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Power in Our Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Darkest Child Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Mother's Ring: A Holocaust Historical Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resolving Childhood Trauma Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThalia Book Club: Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anya Seton: A Writing Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAusten Years: A Memoir in Five Novels Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Echo Hall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Scribbles, Sorrows, and Russet Leather Boots: The Life of Louisa May Alcott Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jesus' Silent Years: Homecoming Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurrender: A memoir of nature, nurture, and love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love, Janis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Father and Son Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Seamstress Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jenny Offill's Weather: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Confessions of JeanJacques Rousseau Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Women Living Single: Thirty Women Share Their Stories of Navigating Through a Married World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Small Backs of Children Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Push, Then Breathe: Trauma, Triumph, and the Making of an American Doctor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYou Don't Cry Out Loud: The Lily Isaacs Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Personal Memoirs For You
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Counting the Cost Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Woman in Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Making It So: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enough Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wishful Drinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Mormon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pageboy: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but I'm still standing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Out of the Wreckage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Reading Jane
0 ratings0 reviews