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Title details for The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina - Available

The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

A Novel

by Laura Imai Messina
Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)
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The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami
When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain.
Then, one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak to them and begin to come to terms with their grief. As news of the phone booth spreads, people travel to it from miles around.
Soon Yui makes her own pilgrimage to the phone booth, too. But once there she cannot bring herself to speak into the receiver. Instead she finds Takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of her mother’s death.
Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is the signpost pointing to the healing that can come after.
* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of reading group questions and a glossary from the book.

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  • Release date

    March 9, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593458952
      • File size: 153699 KB
      • Duration: 05:20:12

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan. Twenty thousand people perished. How does one remember? How does one mourn? With gentle reverence and journalistic reserve, performer and artist Traci Kato-Kiriyama captures the heady mix of raw pain, sadness, and fantasy in this novel on grief and resilience. When Yui loses both her mother and daughter in the disaster, she is inconsolable until she hears of an abandoned phone booth in a garden that allows mourners to pick up the receiver and speak to the dead. Survivors from hundreds of miles around make the pilgrimage to use the phone. Based on true events, the audiobook asks that the listener not search for the phone booth, which still exists, but listen carefully to the sounds of healing. B.P. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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