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Cherry Blossoms

By: Kim Hooper
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
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From the author of the critically acclaimed debut People Who Knew Me comes the story of one man's determination to abandon his will to live.

Jonathan Krause is a man with a plan. He is going to quit his advertising job and, when his money runs out, he is going to die. He just has one final mission: a trip to Japan. It's a trip he was supposed to take with his girlfriend Sara. It's a trip inspired by his regrets. And it's a trip to pay homage to the Japanese, the inventors of his chosen suicide technique.

In preparation for his final voyage, Jonathan enrolls in a Japanese language class where he meets Riko, who has her own plans to visit her homeland, for very different reasons. Their unexpected and unusual friendship takes them to Japan together, where they each struggle to make peace with their past and accept that happiness, loneliness, and grief come and go - just like the cherry blossoms.

Haunted by lost love, Jonathan must decide if he can embrace the transient nature of life, or if he must choose the certainty of death.

©2018 Kim Hooper (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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I spent most of this book annoyed. I hated the narrator and thought the main character was a total asshole. I think partially because of the narrators tone. I wondered if I would’ve liked the main character if it wasn’t for the narrator. I’m still not sure. Then I had moments where I cried. Where I thought about the story in my day, when I wasn’t even listening to it. And for whatever ever reason, I stuck with it. And I’m glad I did.

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