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    Audiobook9 hours

    Don't Fail Me Now

    Written by Una LaMarche

    Narrated by Adenrele Ojo

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    About this audiobook

    From the author of Like No Other, the novel Entertainment Weekly calls "One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars": What if the last hope to save your family is the person who broke it up to begin with?

    Michelle and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty line in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mom in jail and only Michelle's part-time job at the Taco Bell to sustain them.

    Leah and her stepbrother Tim are white and middle class from suburban Maryland, with few worries beyond winning lacrosse games and getting college applications in on time.

    Michelle and Leah only have one thing in common: Buck Devereaux, the biological father who abandoned them when they were little.

    After news trickles back to them that Buck is dying, they make the uneasy decision to drive across country to his hospice in California. Leah hopes for closure; Michelle just wants to give him a piece of her mind.

    Five people in a failing, old station wagon, living off free samples at food courts across America, and the most pressing question on Michelle's mind is: Who will break down first--herself or the car? All the signs tell her they won't make it. But Michelle has heard that her whole life, and it's never stopped her before....

    Una LaMarche triumphs once again with this rare and compassionate look at how racial and social privilege affects one family in crisis in both subtle and astonishing ways.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781101925980
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    Don't Fail Me Now
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    Una LaMarche

    Una LaMarche is a writer and journalist whose work appears regularly in the New York Observer and on the Huffington Post. She is the author of Five Summers, a young adult novel, and UNABROW, a collection of humorous essays based on some of her more questionable life choices. Una lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. Find out more at unalamarche.com or follow her on Twitter @sassycurmudgeon

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      I am in love with Una LaMarche’s writing style. Like No Other blew me away, but this one is just as good. Her characters are so well-developed, and the resolution to the complicated family story was really satisfying because it was so real. I love how diverse her characters are.