Infinite Home

Written by:
Kathleen Alcott
Narrated by:
Christa Lewis

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
2
Narrator
1
Release Date
August 2015
Duration
9 hours 0 minutes
Summary
A beautifully wrought story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together

Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways—in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart—the renters struggle to navigate daily existence and soon come to realize that Edith’s deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the greatest challenge they must confront together.

Faced with eviction by Owen and his designs on the building, the tenants—Paulie, an unusually disabled man, and his burdened sister, Claudia; Edward, a misanthropic stand-up comic; Adeleine, a beautiful agoraphobe; Thomas, a young artist recovering from a stroke—must find in one another what the world has not yet offered or has taken from them: family, respite, security, worth, love.

The threat to their home scatters them far from where they’ve begun, to an ascetic commune in Northern California, the motel rooms of depressed middle America, and a stunning natural phenomenon in Tennessee, endangering their lives and their visions of themselves along the way.

With humanity, humor, grace, and striking prose, Kathleen Alcott portrays these unforgettable characters in their search for connection, for a life worth living, for home.
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Roxie Y.

I liked the empathic side of the characters, but for some reason could not separate tell all of them apart. The story was muddled all the way through for me. The narrator’s lisp did not help. I listened all the way to the end but could not get invested in the characters, but did get invested in the story.

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