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Layla

By: Celine Keating
Narrated by: Sarah Pavelec
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A young woman embarks on a life-changing cross-country trip to face a family secret rooted in America's most turbulent decade.

Layla James, a recent graduate and budding photographer, never knew anything about her father except that he named her for the iconic song by Eric Clapton. Her mother - steeped in a political activism that Layla rejects - kept their past shrouded in secrecy, and when she dies of cancer, she leaves only an enigmatic letter - the first in a series that will lead Layla through a cross-country network of '60s radicals and closer to the bombshell at the heart of her parents' past.

As Layla makes her way from the East Coast to a commune in the California desert, she discovers more about friendship, love, forgiveness, and the personal repercussions of political activism than she could ever have imagined. A stirring and panoramic story, viewed through the lens of the next generation, this exceptional debut audiobook brings the gestalt of the '60s into focus and sheds new light on the era's legacy in the new millennium.

©2011 Celine Keating (P)2014 Celine Keating
Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Political
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