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The Hole We're In

By: Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
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With The Hole We're In—a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America—award-winning author and screenwriter Gabrielle Zevin delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top literary talents.

Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she's been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children—especially for Patsy, the youngest, who will spend most of her life fighting to overcome them. The Hole We're In shines a spotlight on some of the most relevant issues of today: over-reliance on credit, gender and class politics, and the war in Iraq. But it is Zevin's deft exploration of the fragile economy of family life that makes this a book for the ages.

©2010 Gabrielle Zevin (P)2023 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Family Life Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural
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I kind of didn’t like how it jumped forward so fast at the end — maybe because I didn’t want it to end.

The family dynamics that seem to be present in every family.

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I have enjoyed Zevin's other novels, but this one seemed to get lost after the first act. it was a decent listen, but the ending felt rushed and disjointed.

Not Her Best Work

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I could so relate to the daughters in this novel. Speaks to the ways in which capitalism and religion are both used to control people, especially women.

Excellent

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This book did not capture me. I loved tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. The plot of this book never picked up

Love the author not the book

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