The Girl in the Road: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

A debut that Neil Gaiman calls “Glorious . . So sharp, so concentrated and so human.” The Girl in the Road describes another that is culturally lush and psychologically wrenching.

Monica Byrne bursts to the literary scene with a fantastic vision of the future. In a world where global power provides shifted east and trend is brewing, two women embark on greatly different journeys-each harrowing and urgent and wholly unpredicted.

When Meena finds snakebites on her upper body, her worst anxieties about THE LADY in the Road: A Novel are realized: someone is after her and she must flee India. As she plots her exit, she learns from the Trail, an energy-harvesting bridge spanning the Arabian Sea that has been a refuge for itinerant vagabonds and loners away from home. This is her salvation. Sliding out in the cover of night time, using a knapsack filled with materials including a pozit GPS, a scroll audience, and a sealable waterproof pod, she cause for Ethiopia, the area of her delivery.

Meanwhile, Mariama, a young woman in Africa, is usually forced to flee her house. She joins up with a caravan of misfits heading across the Sahara. She is taken in by Yemaya, a beautiful and enigmatic female who turns into her protector and confidante. They want to reach Addis Abba, Ethiopia, a metropolis swirling with radical politics and rich tradition. But Mariama will see a city considerably different than she ever expected-romantic, turbulent, and harmful.

As one heads east and the various other west, Meena and Mariama’s fates are linked with techniques that are strange and shocking towards the core.

Written with amazing clarity, deep emotion, and a futuristic flair, THE LADY in the street is an artistic feat of the 1st order: vividly dreamed, artfully informed, and profoundly moving.