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For Better And For Worse

Audiobook

2009 Audies® Finalist for Best Audiobook Adaptation Category

"How could I look at my wife, the mother of my children, and feel only the need for revenge?" From Do You Know Where I Am? by Sherman Alexie

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves

Sherman Alexie's Do You Know Where I Am?

read by Keir Dullea

A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wife's Story

read by Joanna Gleason

A supernatural tale of marriage and transformation

Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love

read by Joanne Woodward

A mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon

Shahrnush Parsipur's Mrs. Farrokhlaqa Sadraldivan Golchehreh

translated by Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet

read by Frances Sternhagen

The unexpected twists and turns in a longtime marriage. (This story was banned by the Iranian government in the mid-1990s)

Luis Alberto Urrea's Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses

read by Robert Sean Leonard

A grieving man visits the reservation to bury his young wife and makes amends with her family

Ethan Canin's We Are Nighttime Travelers

read by Harold Gould

The arrival of a mysterious visitor sets off new sparks in a longtime marriage

Selected Shorts is an award-winning, one-hour program featuring readings of classic and new short fiction, recorded live at New York's Symphony Space. One of the most popular series on the airwaves, this unique show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer and produced for radio by Symphony Space and WNYC Radio.

"For Better and for Worse has many wonderful moments, which make the collection worth committing to for a few hours." -from Publishers Weekly


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2009 Audies® Finalist for Best Audiobook Adaptation Category

"How could I look at my wife, the mother of my children, and feel only the need for revenge?" From Do You Know Where I Am? by Sherman Alexie

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves

Sherman Alexie's Do You Know Where I Am?

read by Keir Dullea

A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wife's Story

read by Joanna Gleason

A supernatural tale of marriage and transformation

Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love

read by Joanne Woodward

A mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon

Shahrnush Parsipur's Mrs. Farrokhlaqa Sadraldivan Golchehreh

translated by Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet

read by Frances Sternhagen

The unexpected twists and turns in a longtime marriage. (This story was banned by the Iranian government in the mid-1990s)

Luis Alberto Urrea's Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses

read by Robert Sean Leonard

A grieving man visits the reservation to bury his young wife and makes amends with her family

Ethan Canin's We Are Nighttime Travelers

read by Harold Gould

The arrival of a mysterious visitor sets off new sparks in a longtime marriage

Selected Shorts is an award-winning, one-hour program featuring readings of classic and new short fiction, recorded live at New York's Symphony Space. One of the most popular series on the airwaves, this unique show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer and produced for radio by Symphony Space and WNYC Radio.

"For Better and for Worse has many wonderful moments, which make the collection worth committing to for a few hours." -from Publishers Weekly


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