The Beginner’s Goodbye Audiobook (Free)

Anne Tyler offers us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving brand-new novel where she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped aside by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances-in their house, over the roadway, in the market.

Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron spent his child years fending off a sister who would like to manage him. Therefore when he fits Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, self-dependent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly he marries about The Beginner’s Goodbye her, plus they have a comparatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree accidents into their house and Dorothy can be wiped out, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy’s unexpected looks from the useless help him to reside in the moment also to find some peacefulness.

Steadily he discovers, as he works in the family’s vanity-publishing business, turning out game titles that presume to steer beginners through the tests of existence, that maybe because of this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye.

A beautiful, subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with Anne Tyler’s humor, wisdom, and constantly penetrating take a look at human foibles.