His Favorites

  • Author: Kate Walbert
  • Narrator: Gabra Zackman
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 3:27:58
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Synopsis

A “tense, taut, and thrilling” (Marie Claire) novel about a teenage girl, a predatory teacher, and a school’s complicity from the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women—“riveting, terrifying, exactly the book for our times” (Ann Patchett).

They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens at night on a “borrowed” golf cart, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents’ rocky marriage into demise. She is ready to begin again, far away from the accident.

“Devastatingly relevant” (Vogue) and “fueled by gorgeous writing” (NPR), His Favorites reveals the interior life of a young woman determined to navigate the treachery in a new world. Told from her perspective many years later, the story coolly describes a series of shattering events and a school that failed to protect her. “Before things turn treacherous, there’s a moment when predation can feel dangerously like kindness…Walbert understands this…His Favorites begs to be read” (Time).

Chapters

  • HisFavorites 001 Open

    Duration: 12s
  • HisFavorites 002 Epigraph

    Duration: 12s
  • HisFavorites 003 Part1a

    Duration: 19min
  • HisFavorites 004 Part1b

    Duration: 12min
  • HisFavorites 005 Part1c

    Duration: 08min
  • HisFavorites 006 Part1d

    Duration: 09min
  • HisFavorites 007 Part1e

    Duration: 27min
  • HisFavorites 008 Part1e

    Duration: 02min
  • HisFavorites 009 Part1f

    Duration: 07min
  • HisFavorites 010 Part1g

    Duration: 05min
  • HisFavorites 011 Part1h

    Duration: 10min
  • HisFavorites 012 Part1i

    Duration: 10min
  • HisFavorites 013 Part2a

    Duration: 06min
  • HisFavorites 014 Part2b

    Duration: 13min
  • HisFavorites 015 Part2c

    Duration: 06min
  • HisFavorites 016 Part2d

    Duration: 04min
  • HisFavorites 017 Part2e

    Duration: 15min
  • HisFavorites 018 Part2f

    Duration: 20min
  • HisFavorites 019 Part2g

    Duration: 03min
  • HisFavorites 020 Part2h

    Duration: 07min
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