Trail of Broken Wings
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Trail of Broken Wings
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Narrated by:
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Karen Peakes
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By:
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Sejal Badani
About this listen
Goodreads Best Fiction Finalist and Amazon Charts and USA Today Bestseller
When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she'd fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay.
Buried secrets rise to the surface as their father - the victim of humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violence - remains unconscious. As his condition worsens, the daughters and their mother wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death, as well as their own demons and buried secrets.
Told with forceful honesty, Trail of Broken Wings reveals the burden of shame and secrets, the toxicity of cruelty and aggression, and the exquisite, liberating power of speaking and owning truth.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The story was told from in turns by each of the daughter's and the mother. Each character had a different story/experience to tell and each were affected differently.What was one of the most memorable moments of Trail of Broken Wings?
The characters and the storyline. The story never lost pace and you just wanted to keep on listening. The storyline was excellent and thought provoking.What does Karen Peakes bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
She bought the characters to life, each character was subtely different in the way that they spoke. Karen put emotion into the voices which had an impact on the story, more so than if reading the story from the book.Brilliant!
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positive without being too romantic. The reader was good but with so many points of view it might have been better to have had separate voices.
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🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻☺
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Beautifully written and narrated
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Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings
I started this book twice, the first time I got entangled on the sisters problems and could not continue, I felt frustrated by them, so I stopped and started again, there had to be a reason this women had all this differences, while appearing to be so successful, then the quiet man dying in the hospital became more evident, more central, more destructive, and the mother of the story became less of a shadow with the passing of every page. A story about sisters became a tale of survival of the destructive force of abuse; at times it was hard to read not because of violence but because of the consequences of that violence, but as you move forward in the story you see the hope, a kind of redemption growing.
“Energy doesn’t stand still; it moves, shifts with time. I think maybe we are meant to do the same, to see the world not as we fear it is but as we hope for it to be—kinder, gentler, each lesson not meant to destroy but to enable.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings
This is a beautiful, difficult book that is full of surprises, an uplifting book that drags you very low to lift you into the arms of reconciliation and healing, yet it is never melodramatic or manipulative, the plot line is unexpected as are the characters and their secrets.
“I imagine another falling star, but this time I don’t make a wish. Instead I smile, understanding that even though not every story ends with a happy ending or begins with tragedy, along the way there are moments of both. And those moments don’t define you or even break you—they are simply parts of the whole.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings
As my brother said to me about the movie Brooklin, “it is girly but really good” that is exactly how it feels to read this book, and because of that it is universal.
“The past, no matter how definite, does not have the power to determine the future.”
Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings
We don’t choose our families, or our childhood,
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Excellent read
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The father goes into a coma and hidden secrets, bubble to the surface, we then learn how much his horrific
A Emotional journey
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