num_pages: 34
description: Audible narration by Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars)A genealogy test sparks a womans reflection on the two accounts of her lifethe real one and the one shes always told the worldin this poignant short story by Cheryl Strayed the bestselling author of Wild.In 1964 teenage Geraldine Waters was sent away by her parents to an unwed mothers home where she gave up her newborn for adoption. Ever since shes lived an alternative narrative. Decades later its time for Geraldine to reconcile the telling of her life to finally grieve and to discover what happened to that part of her past that slipped away.Cheryl Strayeds This Telling is part of Out of Line an incisive collection of funny enraging and hopeful stories of womens empowerment and escape. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.
language: English
title: This Telling
publisher: Amazon Original Stories