Description:
Fraternity - Benjamin Nugent - 2020
Stories
By: Benjamin Nugent
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 07-07-20
Language: English
Genre: Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Publisher's Summary
This program includes Jesse Eisenberg's narration of the story "God", previously recorded for the Paris Review Podcast.
Voiced by an off-kilter chorus of the young and desperate to belong, Benjamin Nugent's provocative collection pries the fraternity door off its hinges, daring us to peer inside with amusement, horror, and also with love.
In a Massachusetts college town stands a dilapidated colonial: Delta Zeta Chi. Here, we meet Newton, the beloved chapter president; Oprah, the sensitive reader; Petey, the treasurer, loyal to a fault; Claire, the couch-surfing dropout who hopes to sell them drugs; and a girl known, for unexpected reasons, as God. Though the living room reeks of sweat and spilled beer, the brothers know that to be inside is everything.
Fraternity celebrates the debauched kinship of boys and girls straddling adolescence and adulthood: the drunken antics, solemn confessions, and romantic encounters that mark their first years away from home. Beneath each episode lies the dread of exclusion. The closeted Oprah's hero worship gives way to real longing. A combat veteran offers advice on hazing. An alienated young woman searches for a sanctuary. And the shadow of assault hovers over every sexual encounter.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
©2020 Benjamin Nugent (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
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