Float Up, Sing Down Audiobook

Bloomsbury presents Float Up Sing Down by Laird Hunt read by Holly Palance

Laird Hunts masterful story collection capturing one summers day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed

Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl but thats not where shes really headed on her new Schwinn fivespeed

Float Up Sing Down is the story of a single day But in that day how much teeming life The residents of this rural town have their routines their preferences their joys grudges and regrets Gossip is paramount Lives are entwined Retired sheriffs climb corn bins and muse on lost love French teachers throw firecrackers out of barn windows and teenagers borrow motorcycles to ride the back roads

Each of the fourteen stories of Float Up Sing Down follows one characters day in the life in one of Hunts most beloved and enduring landscapes In the tradition of Willa Cather Sherwood Anderson Elizabeth Strout and Edward P Jones this is a symphony of souls a masterful portrait of both loneliness and community by one of our great limners of American experience