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    Waiting for Eden: A Novel
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    Waiting for Eden: A Novel

    Written by Elliot Ackerman

    Narrated by MacLeod Andrews

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    About this audiobook

    From the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that traces the intersection of three star-crossed lives.

    Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home—and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden's re-ordered consciousness comes flickering alive. As he begins to find a way to communicate, some troubling truths about his marriage—and about his life before he went to war—come to the surface. Is Eden the same man he once was: a husband, a friend, a father-to-be? What makes a life worth living? A piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty and betrayal, love and fear, Waiting for Eden is a tour de force of profound humanity.

    Editor's Note

    Dark & innovative…

    Elliot Ackerman’s slim novel is like a punch in the gut. Sharp, surprising, and at times devastating, ‘Waiting for Eden’ deals with the broadest themes imaginable — life and death, love and grief — while remaining tightly focused on one injured soldier’s most intimate relationships. A terrific and innovative novel about the ways that war can tear apart a family, and a soldier, long before it tears apart the body.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 25, 2018
    ISBN9780525642923
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    Waiting for Eden: A Novel
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    Elliot Ackerman

    Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. A former White House Fellow, his essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and Ecotone, among others. He currently lives in Istanbul where he writes on the Syrian Civil War. Green on Blue is his first novel.

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    • 5/5
      WOW! An amazing & heartbreaking story; definitely worth a listen .
    • 4/5
      Sad book. But well written and enjoyable to read. Liked the book very much.
    • 5/5
      Not too many books make me cry. This one did. Such a haunting, emotional story. I'll be thinking of this one for a while.
    • 5/5
      This was heartbreaking. Lovely drama. Like real drama story. Just great.
    • 5/5
      VERY MOVING! Amazing writing. You can visualize everything so clearly
    • 5/5
      Amazing writing. Not a topical sentence in it, but definitely a sequel to Johnny Get You Gun. A postmodern Johnny. Postmodern because the world surrounding Eden and Mary is so fucked up that it can't be understood. Just think of all the vets in the world today who have fought and suffered for nothing in meaningless wars fought merciless deep state insanity. By not mentioning any of this the trials and tribulations of Eden and Mary are etched in stark outline.
    • 4/5
      This was really good. I enjoyed it. Can't wait to read more by the author.