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    Contrary Motion: A Novel
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    Contrary Motion: A Novel
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    Contrary Motion: A Novel

    Written by Andy Mozina

    Narrated by Scott Merriman

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    About this audiobook

    Matthew Grzbc is just your average newly divorced dad. He shares custody of his six-year-old daughter. He may still be in love with his ex-wife. He believes he probably doesn't deserve his sexy, successful, driven girlfriend. And he plays the harp-that's his job.

    When his father dies unexpectedly (he has a heart attack while listening to a meditation CD), Matt is forced to confront his own mortality and the fleeting nature of life-he questions everything, from his romantic attachments to his professional aspirations.

    When he earns an audition for the principle harp chair in a first-rate orchestra-just the kind of life-changing development he could use right now-he is poised to seize the opportunity…but then his ex-wife gets engaged, his girlfriend grows distant, his daughter seems to be having the 6-year-old version of an emotional breakdown, he learns things about his father's life that make him question everything he thought he knew about the man, and then…even his harp starts to betray him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 8, 2016
    ISBN9781511371070
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    Contrary Motion: A Novel
    Author

    Andy Mozina

    Born and raised in Milwaukee, Andy Mozina majored in economics at Northwestern, then dropped out of Harvard Law School to study literature and write. He’s published fiction in Tin House, Ecotone, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. His first story collection, The Women Were Leaving the Men, won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Quality Snacks, his second collection, was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Prize. His first novel, Contrary Motion, was published by Spiegel & Grau/Penguin Random House. His fiction has received special citations in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the Midwest. He’s a professor of English at Kalamazoo College.

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