A Cloud In The Shape Of A Girl

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Synopsis

From National Book Award finalist and the New York Timesbestselling author of The Year We Left Home comes a “powerful, beautifully crafted” (People) family saga about three generations of women who struggle to find freedom and happiness in their small Midwestern college town.

A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is a poignant novel about three generations of the Wise family—Evelyn, Laura, and Grace—as they hunt for contentment amid chaos of their own making.

We see these women and their trials, small and large: social slights and heartbreaks; marital disappointments and infidelities; familial dysfunction; mortality. Spanning from World War II to the present, Thompson reveals a matrilineal love story that is so perfectly grounded in our time—a story of three women regressing, stalling, and yes, evolving, over decades. One of the burning questions she asks is: by serving her family, is a woman destined to repeat the mistakes of previous generations, or can she transcend the expectations of a place, and a time? Can she truly be free?

Evelyn, Laura, and Grace are the glue that binds their family together. Tethered to their small Midwestern town—by choice or chance—Jean Thompson seamlessly weaves together the stories of the Wise women with humanity and elegance, through their heartbreaks, setbacks, triumphs, and tragedies. “Thompson’s new novel draws the reader in with character and plot…but what ultimately holds the reader enthralled is…her ability to capture the nuance of individual moments, thoughts, and reactions. No one writing today is better at this…[an] extraordinary novel” (Washington Independent Review of Books).

Chapters

  • 001 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Title

    Duration: 14s
  • 002 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part1 Ch1

    Duration: 25min
  • 003 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part1 Ch2

    Duration: 48min
  • 004 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part1 Ch3

    Duration: 01h01min
  • 005 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part1 Ch4

    Duration: 01h22min
  • 006 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part2 Ch1

    Duration: 53min
  • 007 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part2 Ch2

    Duration: 01h02min
  • 008 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part2 Ch3

    Duration: 01h23min
  • 009 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part2 Ch4

    Duration: 57min
  • 010 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part2 Ch5

    Duration: 01h29min
  • 011 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part2 Ch6

    Duration: 01h03min
  • 012 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Part3 Ch1

    Duration: 29min
  • 013 ACloudInTheShapeOfAGirl Credits

    Duration: 27s