Maps Of Our Spectacular Bodies
- Author: Maddie Mortimer
- Narrator: Lydia Wilson
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 12:20:50
Synopsis
This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman’s life—told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease.
Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia’s past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform.
Deftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia’s youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia’s body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day.
Pivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman’s life to symphonic effect.
Chapters
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001 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies Open
Duration: 37s -
002 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterOne a
Duration: 48min -
003 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterOne b
Duration: 38min -
004 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterTwo
Duration: 53min -
005 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterThree
Duration: 01h16min -
006 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterFour
Duration: 01h06min -
007 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterFive
Duration: 01h12min -
008 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterSix
Duration: 43min -
009 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterSeven
Duration: 40min -
010 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterEight a
Duration: 43min -
011 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterEight b
Duration: 50min -
012 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterNine
Duration: 01h18min -
013 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterTen a
Duration: 54min -
014 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterTen b
Duration: 27min -
015 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies ChapterEleven
Duration: 44min -
016 MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies Credits
Duration: 44s