Unspeakable Home Audiobook

From awardwinning writer Ismet Prcic a brutal and tender and beautiful Tommy Orange author of Wandering Stars novel that is part existential crypart anguished confessiona transfiguring of personal memory to obscure the terrible cost of exile The New York Times

Having fled his wartorn hometown of Tuzla as a teenager our narrator Izzy found love and a measure of stability in California with his beloved But his American marriage couldnt survive his Bosnian brokenness the trauma so entrenched and insidious that it became impossible to communicate to anyone outside of himselfeven the person he loved most Now as he writes in the first of many courageously candid fan letters to the comedian Bill Burr he knows he must try

An adventurous novel that meshes a fragmented narrative with a broken soul Kirkus Reviews Unspeakable Home takes us through Izzys memories and confessions as he reflects on his bombravaged childhood the implosion of his relationships and an agonizing battle with alcoholism As multiple narrators surface in fragments with increasingly tenuous connections to reality Prcic unearths the psychological cost of exile and shame with a roving kinetic energy and a sharp searching sense of humor

What emerges is a vivid and poignant exploration of the stories we create to hide the deepest parts of our identity from ourselves as well as a hardwon lifeaffirming promise of redemption