There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

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‘In some way Casey Gerald offers pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual declaration of our period by just looking outside his windows and inside himself. Extraordinary.’ – Marlon Adam

‘Staccato prose and peripatetic storytelling combine the cadences from the Bible with an urgency similar to James Baldwin within this powerfully about YOU WILL SEE No Miracles Right here: A Memoir emotional memoir.’ – BookPage

The testament of the boy and a generation who came old as the world came apart–a generation searching for a fresh way to live.

Casey Gerald involves our fractured times like a uniquely visionary witness whose existence has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His tale begins by the end of the world: Dallas, New Year’s Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather’s dark evangelical church to see which ones will be transported off. His beautiful, fragile mom disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Kids on her impairment checks. When Casey–following in the footsteps of his dad, a gridiron star who actually broke his back for the team–is recruited to try out football at Yale, he enters a world he’s never imagined, the anteroom to key societies and achievement on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those that live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that maintain others from rising. And he views, many painfully, how his own ascension is area of the scheme.

There Will Be No Miracles Right here has the arc of the traditional rags-to-riches tale, but it stands the American Dream narrative in its head. If to live once we are is certainly destroying us, it asks, what would it mean to truly live? Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humor and peaceful fury, There Will Be No Wonders Hereinspires us to question–even shatter–and reimagine our most appreciated myths.