Since You Left Me cover art

Since You Left Me

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Since You Left Me

By: Allen Zadoff
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

For Sanskrit Aaron Zuckerman, it isn’t easy to believe. Especially when all the people you care about leave. His dad left after the divorce. The love of his life left in second grade. His best friend in Jewish school found God and practically left the planet. Now his yoga-teacher mom is falling in love with her spiritual guru, and she’s threatening to leave, too. In a desperate attempt to keep his family together, Sanskrit tells just one small lie. And for a while it seems to be working. Because people start coming back. Sanskrit might even get the family he always wanted. There’s just one little thing in his way. The truth.

Against the setting of modern-day Los Angeles, YA author Allen Zadoff presents a funny and heartbreaking novel about the search for love - and meaning - in a world where everyone is looking for something to hang on to.

©2012 Allen Zadoff (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Family & Relationships Young Adult Comedy Funny

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness cover art
Dream Student cover art
Lost and Found cover art
One for the Murphys cover art
Noggin cover art
Faking Normal cover art
Ask Him Why cover art
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza cover art
Holding onto Forever cover art
Choosing You cover art
180 Seconds cover art
Lost in You cover art
Denton Little's Deathdate cover art
What It Is cover art
Me & My Invisible Guy cover art
32 Candles cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
This is a great story, very different and humorous but underneath dealing with more serious matters such as religion and family dynamics. I liked Sanskrit a lot and couldn’t help but feel empathetic. He’s dealing with a lot of issues and feels rejected and as though his life is out of control. His parents are divorced, his best friend found religion and changed drastically (we don’t find out why until quite late into the story) and he never got over his first crush. Not to mention his mother who is, to say the least, a little wacky and comes across as quite self centred.
A whole chain of events begin and take off like a runaway train when Sanskrit’s mother fails to turn up for his parent/teacher evening and he invents a lie to cover up. The story is narrated by Sanskrit with typical teenage angst, wit and sarcasm but for all that it’s warm and sensitive and MacLeod Andrews' narration reflects this brilliantly.(less) [edit]
Nov 19, 2013

Very enjoyable

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.