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    The Storyteller's Death
    The Storyteller's Death
    The Storyteller's Death
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Storyteller's Death

    Written by Ann Davila Cardinal

    Narrated by Marisol Ramirez

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    About this audiobook

    There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her family’s house when Isla was a child.

    Isla Larsen Sanchez’s life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her grandmother and great-aunt each summer like a piece of forgotten luggage.

    When Isla turns eighteen, her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies. It is then that Isla discovers she has a gift passed down through her family’s cuentistas. The tales of dead family storytellers are brought back to life, replaying themselves over and over in front of her.

    At first, Isla is enchanted by this connection to the Sanchez cuentistas. But when Isla has a vision of an old murder mystery, she realizes that if she can’t solve it to make the loop end, these seemingly harmless stories could cost Isla her life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 4, 2022
    ISBN9781705070024
    The Storyteller's Death
    Author

    Ann Davila Cardinal

    Ann Dávila Cardinal is a writer and part-time bookseller with an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her young adult horror novels include Breakup from Hell and Five Midnights and its sequel, Category Five. Ann lives with her husband in a little house with a creepy basement and is always on the lookout for parts of monstrous creatures floating in the Vermont rivers as Lovecraft wrote about. Visit her online at anndavilacardinal.com. 

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      This was written beautifully and the story was so good and absolutely tugs at your heartstrings for so many reasons.
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      A beautifully told story of family and stories left untold. It reminded me so much of my family. I was truly left I tears of this story and the author’s writing.