They’re Going to Love You - Meg Howrey

Written by Meg Howrey
Read by Meg Howrey
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: November 15, 2022
Duration: 08:57:18

Throughout her childhood, Carlisle Martin got to see her father, Robert, for only a few precious weeks a year when she visited the brownstone apartment in Greenwich Village he shared with his partner, James. Brilliant but troubled, James gave Carlisle an education in all that he held dear in life—literature, music, and, most of all, dance.

Seduced by the heady pull of mentorship and hoping to follow in the footsteps of her mother—a former Balanchine ballerina—Carlisle’s aspiration to become a professional ballet dancer bloomed. But above all else, she longed to be asked to stay at the house on Bank Street, to be a part of Robert and James’s sophisticated world, even as the AIDS crisis brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair created a rift between the family, with shattering consequences that reverberated for decades to come. Nineteen years later, when Carlisle receives a phone call that unravels the events of that fateful summer, she sees with new eyes how her younger self has informed the woman she’s become.

They’re Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist in America, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.

“Meg Howrey’s narration creates an emotionally intimate listening experience as Carlisle receives a call from James, telling her that Robert is on his deathbed. As Carlisle wrestles with whether or not to fly to Robert’s bedside, Howrey conveys every moment of suspense with her subtle performance and attention to detail. Listeners will be enraptured to the very last sentence.”—Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award