Hall (yes, Dexter), is both haunting and delightful as the narrator, Paul (known as “Fred” to Holly), who is Holly’s charming male neighbor and a writer, exudes fascination with Holly. What the book has that the movie does not is poetically strung words that become sentences that become a master class in the creation of an utterly complex character, which we all are. Holly is unique, independent, glamorous, fragile, flawed, lost, and so much more. Her cat doesn’t have a name and she neither wants to be caged nor alone, but is happiest at Tiffany’s. This is the story of Holly Golightly, a New York socialite during the 1940s. I haven’t read an intimate character portrait so detailed and multi-faceted maybe, well, ever.
The short fiction version of Breakfast at Tiffany’s that preceded the infamous movie is, by all accounts, a classic and a masterpiece that is one of my favorite books of all time and one of the best audiobooks of all time. Additionally, the emotional writing and spot-on vocal accents will leave you glued to your headphones and gasping. Part of what is so immersive about this audiobook is the shock of realizing it’s based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals in which poor children were kidnapped and sold. In present-day South Carolina, a privileged woman helping her sick father has a chance encounter that leaves her to uncover these mysteries of the past. Rill must then fight to keep her siblings together in the face of a deceitful director. When their father rushes their mother to the hospital on a stormy night, strangers abduct them and place them in the Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage. In Memphis in 1939, twelve-year-old Rill and her four siblings live on their family’s shanty boat along the Mississippi River. The voices of the characters, along with the story arc, tugged at my emotions so deeply that I have never since forgotten this story of a dark part of American history. But, I saw that it had consistently had great reviews, so I grabbed it on audio. Graffīest Audio Books of All Time Before We Were Yours by Lisa WingateĪ New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestsellerīefore We Were Yours is one of the best audiobooks of all time even though initially it wasn’t a book on my radar.
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