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And Sometimes Why by Rebecca Johnson
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And Sometimes Why

A Novel

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Narrator Cassandra Campbell

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Length 11 hours 8 minutes
Language English
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From a contributing editor for Vogue, a pitch-perfect, funny, and poignant novel about the joy and heartache of how deeply one person's life can affect so many others.



With wit and warmth, And Sometimes Why captures the fragile rhythm and unpredictable drama of family life. When Sophia and Darius say good-bye to their teenage daughters one unremarkable morning. they have no idea how permanently their family will be affected by a decision made around the breakfast table. One of the daughters will have a terrible accident; the other will meet a boy. Both events will change their lives forever. Profoundly honest and rendered with a deft lightness of touch, And Sometimes Why is a novel about how quickly life can change and how we must learn to change with it.

Rebecca Johnson has been a contributing editor to Vogue for eleven years. She also spent a year writing Talk of the Town columns for the New Yorker and working as a contributing editor at Talk magazine. She lives in Brooklyn and Bedford, New York, with her husband, two children, and three stepchildren.

Cassandra Campbell has recorded nearly two hundred audiobooks and directed many more. She has been nominated for and won multiple Audie Awards, as well as the prestigious Odyssey Award. She has received numerous starred audio reviews in both Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and more than twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards. Cassandra was also named a Best Voice by AudioFile for 2009 and 2010.

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"This heartfelt, poignant, and sometimes humorous and ironic study emphasizes the resilience of the human spirit." ---Library Journal Expand reviews
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