Dixon, Descending Audiobook

CompellingThe Boston Globe
PoignantheartbreakingThe Christian Science Monitor
This one hits hardPublishers Weekly

When Nate suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest his younger brother Dixon cant refuse The two are determined to prove somethingto themselves and to each other

Dixon interrupts his orderly life as a school psychologist leaving behind disapproving friends family and one particularly fragile student Once on the mountain Nate and Dixon are met with extreme weather conditions oxygen deprivation and precarious terrain But as much as theyve prepared for this Mt Everest is always fickle And in one devastating moment Dixons world is upended

Dixon returnshome and attemptsto resume his job but things have shifted for him and for the students he left behind Ultimately Dixon must confront the truth of what happened on the mountain and come to terms with who can and cannot be saved Dixon Descending offers us a captivating shattering portrait of the ways were reshaped by our decisionsand what it takes to angle ourselves once again toward hope

Outen understands firstclass human drama
Gabriel Bump author of The New Naturals

The most engulfing transporting deeply humane novel Ive read in ten years
Monica Wood author of How to Read a Book