Kate’s 2¢: “Ask Again, yes.” By Mary Beth Keane

“Ask Again, yes.” By Mary Beth Keane

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I thought this book was a well written saga of two families and how they inter-related to each other. I even liked the ending.

   Molly Pope did a good job of reading this book for the NLS and I’ll look for other stories she’s narrated.

Author Website:

Mary Beth Keane attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing, and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. She is the author of The Walking People, Fever, and most recently, Ask Again, Yes, which spent eight weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. To date, translation rights to Ask Again, Yes have sold in twenty-two languages, with most translated editions forthcoming in 2021.

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From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Ask again, yes DB95483

Keane, Mary Beth. Reading time: 12 hours, 44 minutes.

Read by Molly Pope. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Family

1973. Rookie cops Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are assigned to the same precinct in the Bronx. They aren’t close, but they end up living next door and having children within months of each other. As their children grow, they are close, but are separated by a violent event. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.