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    Rust
    Rust
    Rust
    Audiobook9 hours

    Rust

    Written by Julie Mars

    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt

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    About this audiobook

    An article in a random travel magazine - about coyotes freely roaming the banks of the Rio Grande right in the middle of the city of Albuquerque - compels talented but socially-isolated artist Margaret Shaw to pack up and move from New York City to New Mexico. She quickly settles into a Chicano/Mexican barrio near the river, spending long days at local junkyards attempting to satisfy another recent obsession - her determination to mover her art from two dimensions to three. As she collects rusty parts from obsolete machinery, she imagines welding them into sculptures, and she never looks back at the sorrowful past she left behind in the east.

    Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Rico Garcia, a car mechanic known locally as "El Rey,"the king of low rider welders, and impulsively asks him to teach her to weld. Unlike Margaret, whose lifestyle is completely solitary, Rico lives with his wife, three daughters, a grandaughter and his mother. There is no common ground between the two, but once they begin welding lessons at Rico's shop, a deep, instantaneous friendships sparks, igniting intense, chaotic self-reflection and driving them both to confront the damage they have suffered in their individual pasts.

    Against this backdrop of emotional unpredictability, Margaret and Rico embark on an odyssey, both grounded and mystical, that carries them through the silent, wide open spaces of the high desert to the edge of healing, and perhaps beyond.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    Release dateSep 28, 2021
    ISBN9781094426402
    Rust
    Author

    Julie Mars

    Julie Mars is the author of two previous novels (The Secret Keepers in 2000 and Anybody, Any Minute in 2008) and a memoir (A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister in 2005), which was a finalist for the Independent Press Memoir of the Year and made the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers"" list. She is the recipient of many awards, including grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and the Cone fellowship. She lives in New Mexico.""

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    • 5/5
      Wonderful story, so vivid and beautiful and a great narrator!
    • 5/5
      This story was absolute poetry in motion. Highly recommend those book.
    • 5/5
      A very nicely written book that I could not put down till the end.
    • 4/5
      For anyone who has been emotionally betrayed and survives, finds a new path and struggles with making new good choices this book resonates .
    • 2/5
      The story felt too predictable yet unbelievable at every turn.
    • 4/5
      Really loved the story with all its' twists and turns.
      I did not like the frequency of the use of the f word though.
    • 5/5
      I didn't want it to end! I loved the writer's description of Margaret's single- minded effort for her vision to become real. I hope I can read more of this author.
    • 5/5
      This is a beautiful read, full of people who become the readers friends and sights no one forgets. There is pain, love, despair and hope. It is hard to put down.
    • 5/5
      This is the most marvelous story. What a surprise. The reader is just right with just a little Mexican accent, not too much. She’s done her research on pronouncing some difficult names. She knows how to pronounce ‘mirror’. The story itself is uplifting and non-threatening. I will look for more stories by this writer, many thanks for a nice escape.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book from start to finish! thank you!
    • 4/5
      Took a bit to get into but as it unfolded I was drawn into Rico and Margaret's story and found powerful life observations and truths
    • 5/5
      This is a very interesting story of family issues. Lost parents, years later, finding yourself dad. And it is a love story
    • 5/5
      Beautiful and poignant. Gentle and lyrical. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
    • 5/5
      A quiet delight of a story of lost and found creativity, lost and found human contact on the boundaries of undulating, overlapping destinies. Sometimes when we find our place, we help others find theirs.
    • 5/5
      I chose this book because I'm from Arizona and I spent some time in Albuquerque and and on the Navajo reservation. What a good choice! What a surprising, heartfelt story! I family, friendship, loyalty, destiny. loved it!
    • 5/5
      This was a truly engaging story. The characters were realistic and interesting, and held my interest right up until the end.
    • 4/5
      I liked this story very much. At the same time, it felt a little too contrived to win over my unbridled appreciation. Also, the narrator annoyed me because she could have done a better job of learning how to pronounce the handful of Spanish words in the text. But overall, it was a decent read and very cleverly devised to tell the story the writer wanted to tell. And it ended very satisfactorily, altho it was telescoped a mile away, it was still nice to see it all play out.
    • 3/5
      Margaret deja Nueva York para irse a vivir a Albuquerque, un sitio muy opuesto a donde ha vivido, a la vida como pintora que ha tenido. Ahí conoce a Rico, un soldador mexico-americano y a su familia, quien le enseña a soldar y le abre las puertas de su familia. Margaret perdió a su familia en su niñez y la novela cuenta también el periplo por la India que hicieron sus padres y cómo se reencuentran ella y su papá. El uso de algunas frases en español puede hacer ruido a hablantes nativos de esta lengua, construcciones como "Helena mi madre", en las que el artículo posesivo se utiliza junto con el sustantivo como un vocativo compuesto (que puede ser porque sea así en el spanglish que usan en área o por la autora).
    • 4/5
      Not a book I’d normally listen to, but I’m so glad Scribd was running low. Such an interesting story and so lovely.
    • 5/5
      I love how three stories intertwine into one. I was slightly disappointed in the ending but then again maybe not.
    • 5/5
      Great storytelling. You know it's a good one When you are disappointed that the last chapter is actually not a chapter but just the telling ofthe book you've just finished reading who it's by and who the publisher is etc etc.v

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Is it good for an average romance novel? Maybe. Is it good for literature in general? I didn't stay long enough to find out. No substance and everyone is horny.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      After a couple of decent books, this one captured my attention and I couldn’t wait to hear more. I totally have a plan to visit New Mexico now. Great writing with believable and interesting characters.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      What caught my eye to listen to this book is that I'm a native NYer living now in NM a little South of ABQ. It was nice to know locations mentioned and that places like Jemez were pronounced correctly (Heymes).
    • 5/5
      This one- book stew.

      The time, the pace, the story(s)- all well cut, stirred and simmered. I felt immersed, warmed and fully satiated by it's end.

      Great narrator who served this up with care.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Read fast. Hard to follow until end. Good read tho

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book is so artfully written, I loved savoring the author’s way with words. A lovely plot, a beautiful story.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Shedding a Long Island, NY, life for the New Mexico desert, Margaret, an artist, is making a fresh start. She has been self-sufficient and strong, yet needs something. And, she wants to take her art from two to three dimensions, so seeks to learn to weld iron sculptures. Her back story mixes with those of her new acquaintances. The tale has sparks of romantic tension, family drama and pain, and healing. I enjoyed the journey.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A master class in fiction writing. Now I must buy the book to see the sentences, and add it to my only books that are worthy library.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I was pleasantly surprised with this story and the characters within it. The unlikely and I'd have to say, unexpected reunion makes it worth the read. In my case, I enjoyed listening to this book named, "RUST."