Everything Matters!

By Ron Currie; Abby Craden (Read by); Mark Deakins (Read by); Lincoln Hoppe (Read by); Hillary Huber (Read by); Arthur Morey (Read by); Doug Wert (Read by)
(Penguin Audio, Compact Disc, 9780143144786)

Publication Date: June 25, 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Hardcover

Categories: Literary

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the July 2009 Indie Next List

“What would you do if you knew the hour and the day that earth was to be destroyed by a meteor? This is the struggle of Junior Thibodeaux. As he races against time to save everything he loves, the reader will be transfixed and, ultimately, transformed by this big-hearted, brilliant novel.”

-- christopher bowe, Longfellow Books, Portland, ME

Description

Unabridged CDs • 12 hours, 10 CDs

In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter?

About the Author

Ron Currie Jr. is a native of Waterville, Maine, and whose fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Sun, Other Voices and Night Train. His stories have won prizes in The World’s Best Short Story competition and have been shortlisted for the Fish International Short Story award and Swink magazine’s Emerging Writer Award. God is Dead is his first novel.

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