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    Lost and Wanted: A Novel

    Written by Nell Freudenberger

    Narrated by Ann Marie Lee

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    About this audiobook

    An emotionally engaging, suspenseful new novel from the best-selling author, told in the voice of a renowned physicist: an exploration of female friendship, romantic love, and parenthood — bonds that show their power in surprising ways.

    Helen Clapp's breakthrough work on five-dimensional space-time landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her popular books explain physics in plain terms. Helen disdains notions of the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven ideas. So it's perhaps especially vexing for her when, on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday in June, she gets a phone call from a friend who has just died.

    That friend was Charlotte Boyce, Helen's roommate at Harvard. The two women had once confided in each other about everything — in college, the unwanted advances Charlie received from a star literature professor; after graduation, Helen's struggles as a young woman in science, Charlie's as a black screenwriter in Hollywood, their shared challenges as parents. But as the years passed, Charlie became more elusive, and her calls came less and less often. Now, she's permanently, tragically gone.

    As Helen is drawn back into Charlie's orbit and also into the web of feelings she once had for Neel Jonnal — a former college classmate now an acclaimed physicist on the verge of a Nobel Prize-winning discovery — she is forced to question the laws of the universe that had always steadied her mind and heart.

    Suspenseful, perceptive, deeply affecting, Lost and Wanted is a story of friends and lovers, lost and found, at the most defining moments of their lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 2, 2019
    ISBN9781984840097
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    Lost and Wanted: A Novel
    Author

    Nell Freudenberger

    Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds and The Dissident, and of the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” in 2010, she is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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    • 2/5
      It felt like there was too much RANDOM science in between the grief. Although the science was explained well enough, and I knew there would be some going into the novel, it just felt so forced and thrown in there. The first quarter of the book was necessary, but slow to start, while the last quarter saves the entire story for me to give a 2 star rather than one. Even with the last quarter, anything in the middle felt like disorganized, boring rambling. I had such high hopes for this book and was thoroughly disappointed.