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The Astral by Kate Christensen
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The Astral

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Narrator Donald Corren

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Length 9 hours 43 minutes
Language English
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The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now a fervent Freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But Luz has found (and destroyed) some poems of Harry's that ignite her long-simmering suspicions of infidelity, and he's been summarily kicked out. He now has to reckon with the consequences of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures, (and perhaps others) and find his way forward - and back into Luz's good graces.

Kate Christensen, an American novelist, wrote In the Drink, Jeremy Thrane, The Epicure's Lament, and Trouble. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for her fourth novel, The Great Man. Her writings have appeared in various publications, including the bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House. She is a graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She lives in New Hampshire.

Donald Corren received his education at Juilliard. He has acted on and off Broadway, played a recurring role for nine seasons on NBC's Law & Order, as well as other television parts. Corren has also written for TV and corporate clients, including the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has narrated several audiobooks.

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