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    What Could Be Saved: A Novel
    What Could Be Saved: A Novel
    What Could Be Saved: A Novel
    Audiobook15 hours

    What Could Be Saved: A Novel

    Written by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

    Narrated by Lisa Flanagan

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    About this audiobook

    When a mysterious man claims to be her long-missing brother, a woman must confront her family’s closely guarded secrets in this “delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance” (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

    Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Beatrice as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea’s warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers.

    Bangkok, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. In these exotic surroundings, Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US—ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home. But in truth, Robert works for American intelligence, Genevieve finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with her husband’s boss, and their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they don’t really understand.

    Alternating between past and present as all of the secrets are revealed, What Could Be Saved is an unforgettable novel about a family broken by loss and betrayal, and “a richly imagined page-turner that delivers twists alongside thought-provoking commentary” (Kirkus Reviews).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 12, 2021
    ISBN9781797120911
    Author

    Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

    Liese O’Halloran Schwarz, a former emergency medicine doctor, published her first novel Near Canaan while still in medical school. She is also the author of the acclaimed novel The Possible World and the forthcoming What Could Be Saved. She currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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    • 3/5
      This was way too long and super dark. I wish I could rinse my brain of it, but maybe its sticking power is what makes it so memorable.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent book but I wish I hadn’t read it…too disturbing

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I had to stop listening!! I gave this book about 2 1/2 hours.. I really tried.. The lead female character was so jaded and angry!! I kept waiting For the story to become more interesting! Unfortunately it just kept coming back to a lot of angry unhappy people!! DONE

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      It is very good cut have cut out about an hour or so of the book. Dragged on here and there
    • 5/5
      Loved it! Beautifully written, made me pause and really think.
    • 1/5
      ***SPOILERS***

      It’s not often I actually hate a book. But here it is… Not only was it vulgar and crass, it was incredibly dark almost all the way through. No warning about trigger topics at all. Reading about infidelity is already not great, but going into detail makes it worse. Then language, aborted pregnancies and sex trafficking involving children. One was kidnapped and never reunited with his family until decades later. It’s just a horrible story all around and based on the writing style and topic, I will never read another book by this author!
    • 2/5
      A little dark. A lot dark. More than I can handle. Reality or not, that wasn't what I bargained for.
    • 4/5
      This story went on and on and on.. but overall it was a good story.