- Title:
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One Day We're All Going to Die
- Written by:
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Elise Esther Hearst
- Read by:
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Elise Esther Hearst
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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7 hours 52 minutes
- Published:
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September 28 2023
- Available Date:
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September 28 2023
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781460749494
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/HarperCollins audio
Qty
Format
Price
Bolinda price
Australian author
Debut novel
Shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award / Fiction 2024
A darkly humorous millennial coming-of-age story about a 27-year-old single Jewish woman in Melbourne who must learn to reconcile family expectations, cultural constraints and inter-generational trauma with her own desires.
At 27, Naomi is just trying to be a normal person. A normal person who works at a Jewish Museum, who cares for lost things, found things, sacred things and her family. A person who finds herself going on bad blind dates, having cringe-worthy sex, a tumultuous, toxic affair and falling for a man called Moses.
Being a normal person would be easy and fine if she didn't bear the weight of the unspoken grief of Cookie, her Holocaust-survivor grandmother. It would all be fine if she just knew how to be, without feeling the pull of expectation, the fear of disappointing others (men, friends, her parents, humanity) and that pesky problem of being attracted to all the wrong people (according to her parents, anyway).
By endlessly trying to please everyone around her, Naomi can't seem to figure out what she wants for herself, or how to get it. With echoes of the dead and dying all about her, in objects, in story, in her grandmother's firm grasp, Naomi isn't quite sure she knows how to be a normal person, but she is going to try.
'A remarkable debut from an enthralling storyteller. I didn't want it to end.'
Sarah Krasnostein, author of The Trauma Cleaner and The Believer
'Hearst's arrival on the literary scene is a triumphal one. I cannot wait to see what she writes next.'
Lee Kofman, author of The Writer Laid Bare