My life as a rat / Joyce Carol Oates.
Material type: SoundPublisher: [New York] : Harper Audio, 2019Edition: Unabridged; Retail editionDescription: 11 audio discs (13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9780062917683
- 0062917684
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Adult Audiobook | Main Library | Audiobook | FICTION Oates Joyce Carol | Available | 33111009497146 |
Title from disc surface.
Read by Sadie Alexandru.
Compact discs.
Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? The follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes, Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently 'inform' on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement.