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Title details for Long Gone, Come Home by Monica Chenault-Kilgore - Available

Long Gone, Come Home

by Monica Chenault-Kilgore
Bahni Turpin
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Spanning from the joyous peak of the 1930s jazz era to the Great Depression and civil rights movement, Long Gone, Come Home weaves a poetic tale of love, life, and loss as one woman learns the true meaning of home.
Birdie Jennings dreams of a big life beyond her small town of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky—beyond her mundane job tying tobacco leaves at Wrights Factory, beyond her position as the baby of the family. Her life changes when she meets smooth-talking Jimmy Walker. Jimmy makes big promises for an exciting life together, and Birdie is quickly swept off her feet. But some short years after they marry, Jimmy disappears without a trace, leaving Birdie hurt and alone with their two toddlers. Out of money and out of options, Birdie moves back home with her overbearing mother.
Just as she's settling into her new life, Birdie witnesses a gruesome murder and is urged to flee Mt. Sterling to avoid questioning. With nothing but a borrowed suitcase and a questionable note about a house in Cincinnati promised to Jimmy, she travels to the big city just as she and Jimmy dreamed, determined to put her life back together. Plunged into the bustling jazz scenes of the hottest nightclubs and backwoods juke joints, Birdie learns that finding her place among criminals and saints is tough—but she is tougher. Even when some harsh lessons threaten the life she's created on her own terms...

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    June 6, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781488227950
      • File size: 330317 KB
      • Duration: 11:28:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Birdy, born and raised a Kentucky girl, lives in tough economic times for African Americans, as well as whites. Bahni Turpin captures Birdy's turbulent experiences while growing up in the 1930s-1940s South with two sisters and a stern, resourceful Mama whose husband, a war hero, was hanged after returning home. Turpin mesmerizes listeners with her descriptions of Birdy's life with Jimmy, her sweet-talking, big-dreaming husband who moves the family from Kentucky to Chicago to Cincinnati in an effort to survive. Turpin's portrayals of the many characters in this novel are always authentic, as well as heartbreaking, heartwarming, and, at times, humorous. Turpin's sensitive performance will have listeners rooting for Birdy as she seeks a better life for her children and herself. B.J.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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