Lost and Wanted: A novel Audiobook (Free)

New York Instances Best Seller

Called a Best Reserve of 2019 by Vogue and NPR’s Maureen Corrigan

‘Freudenberger’s amazing and compassionate novel takes on the big questions from the world and proves, again, that she actually is among America’s greatest writers.’ –Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

An emotionally participating, suspenseful new book from your best-selling writer, told in the tone of voice of a renowned physicist: an exploration of feminine friendship, intimate love, and parenthood– about Shed and Needed: A book bonds that display their power in unexpected ways.

Helen Clapp’s breakthrough focus on five-dimensional spacetime landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her well-known books describe physics in plain terms. Helen disdains notions from the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven suggestions. So it’s probably especially vexing for her when, on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday in June, she gets a telephone call from a friend who has simply died.

That friend was Charlotte Boyce, Helen’s roommate at Harvard. Both women experienced once confided in one another about everything–in college, the unwanted advancements Charlie received from a celebrity literature teacher; after graduation, Helen’s struggles as a young woman in research, Charlie’s as a black screenwriter in Hollywood, their distributed challenges simply because parents. But mainly because the years handed down, Charlie became more elusive, and her calls came less and less frequently. And now she’s permanently, tragically gone.

As Helen is drawn back to Charlie’s orbit, and also into the internet of feelings she once had for Neel Jonnal–a previous college classmate right now an acclaimed physicist in the verge of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery–she is forced to issue the laws from the world that had generally steadied her brain and heart.

Suspenseful, perceptive, deeply affecting, Misplaced and Wanted is certainly a story of friends and lovers, misplaced and found, at the most defining occasions of their lives.