Oliver Loving A Novel

Stefan Merrill Block, Michael Crouch

eAudio - 2018

"An expert performance by Michael Crouch highlights life-changing moments in a family...He transforms what has become a tragically familiar story into an intricate, nuanced puzzle about real people and real consequences." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerFrom Stefan Merrill Block, celebrated literary talent and author of The Story of Forgetting, comes a brilliant, propulsive audiobook about family, the traumas and secrets that test our deepest bonds, and the stories that hold us together. One warm, West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss County Day School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic Junior named Rebekk...ah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening —and the unspoken story he carries— will tear the town of Bliss,... more