03908cam a2200529 4500 2411444814 TxAuBib 20250628120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798217072361 677107d4-b7d0-4297-b82b-018050af8fc9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11220523 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Huneven, Michelle, 1953- Bug Hollow [Libby Audiobook] : A Novel. Books on Tape, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 214MB. book club recommendations. realistic fiction books. contemporary fiction. relationship books. literary fiction. Women's Fiction. books for women. gifts for women. book club books. summer reading. romance novels. Coming of age. Short Stories. fiction books. romance books. gifts for her. books fiction. Family Saga . summer reads. summer books. beach reads. women gifts. love story. book club. Chick Lit. HTML:“Perfectly captures the unpredictability of life . . . Right down to its final moments, Huneven casually offers up little revelations that crunch as sweet and tart as pomegranate seeds.” <b>—Ron Charles, <i>Washington Post</i></b><br /> “Instantly seduces even the most news-addled reader with its lovely, lucid prose, its spot-on period details and superb gift for description . . . Huneven remains a compassionate guide through the secrets and lies, betrayals and chance encounters, losses and disappointments that buffet this broken and remade family over time." <b>—Helen Schulman, <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /> <b>A decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson clan trying to make sense of the world after the loss of their son Ellis</b><br /> When Sally Samuelson was eight years old, her golden boy brother Ellis went missing the summer he graduated high school. Ellis finally turned up at the bucolic Bug Hollow, a last gasp of the beautiful Northern California counterculture in the seventies. He had found joy in the communal life there, but died in a freak accident weeks later.<br /> From that point, the world of the Samuelsons never spins on the same axis, especially after Julia, Ellis’s girlfriend from Bug Hollow, shows up pregnant on their doorstep. Each Samuelson has sought their own solace: Sybil Samuelson pours herself into teaching and numbing her pain after the loss of her beloved son; her husband, Phil, had found respite in a love that developed while he was working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia; Katie, the high achieving middle Samuelson, comes home to try and make peace with her mother after a cancer diagnosis. And Sally has become the de facto caretaker to Eva, the child Ellis never knew.<br /> Michelle Huneven is “known for five enthralling novels, which chronicle the lives of middle-class Americans in her lushly conjured native California, as her characters struggle with addiction, excruciating romances, and resounding losses as they continue to seek meaning and a way to be good” (American Academy of Arts and Letters). She captures the Samuelson clan with glorious precision and the deepest empathy as they fracture and rebuild again and again. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-06-28 20:00:03. Rankin, Emily. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=677107d4-b7d0-4297-b82b-018050af8fc9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)