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Half Light

By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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From Tayari Jones, author of the New York Times best seller and Oprah’s Book Club pick An American Marriage, comes an intimate, powerful story of two sisters.

Identical twins Amelia and Camelia Hall were born with the same face, and that’s about it: By the time the girls were through school, the matching set of names could no longer contain them. Now there’s Cam, whose contrarian streak led her to a career in law, and Lia, who followed more closely in her parents’ footsteps with her dermatology practice and married-with-children lifestyle in Atlanta’s Glenwood Park.

But the bond between the sisters is deep and unshakable - Cam serves as the maid of honor on Lia’s wedding day and as her attorney 15 years later, when Lia’s life and the lives of her two teenage daughters are rocked by divorce. And two years after her separation, the dust is finally starting to settle. But in the hazy glow of their first years of marriage, Lia gifted her then-husband a precious, irreplaceable family heirloom, and she decides that now, she must do whatever she can to get it back, starting with breaking and entering.

In Half Light, Jones explores the complex, profound bond of family, both the family we’re born with and the family we choose, against the vibrant backdrop of present-day Atlanta.

©2020 Tayari Jones (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.
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a small dramatic incident but with a good message and ideas about what family is. sometimes materialistics in our lives will not have the same value if it wasn't for the value of family.

values of family

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This book really warmed my heart. Tayari Jones has done it again in this short offering.

Everything about this book and the narrator is absolutely sublime.

Sublime

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This is an enjoyable story of love and the idiosyncratic nature of who to please.

Cute short story

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Tayari Jones is a undervalued artist.

This short story opens up like a rose, as this piece has so many levels and layers to it. A strong story, plot, dilemma, and conclusion. Brilliant character development, speed of pace and moral compass.

Two sisters making an informed decision to take back their family history, value s, and essence through deception and then the truth. The unpicking, musings, and emotional battle between the twin sisters had me backing them like the third accomplice.

I loved it!

Half Light

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narrator was good. An easy listen.

OK story.

engaging enough for a free hour or two

easy listen

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