**"Like Tim O'Brien's _Going After Cacciato_ , _All That's Left to Tell_ celebrates not just the power of storytelling but the deeply human need for it in even the most dire situations. Alternately gripping and dreamy, Daniel Lowe's debut imagines what the stories we tell reveal about ourselves, and
All That's Left to Tell
โ Scribed by Lowe, Daniel
- Book ID
- 109519656
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 288 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781250085559
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โฆ Synopsis
"Like Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato , All That's Left to Tell celebrates not just the power of storytelling but the deeply human need for it in even the most dire situations. Alternately gripping and dreamy, Daniel Lowe's debut imagines what the stories we tell reveal about ourselves, and how they may save us."
-- Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset
Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And every night, a woman he knows only as Josephine visits his cell. At first, her questions are mercenary: is there anyone back home who will pay the ransom? But when Marc can offer no name, she asks him a question about his daughter that is even more terrifying than his captivity. And so begins a strange yet increasingly comforting ritual, in which Josephine and Marc tell each other stories. As these stories build upon one another, a father and daughter start to find their way toward...
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