Mrs. Nash’s Ashes

Author: Sarah Adler Listening Length: 9h 22m

A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love. Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she’d reunite her with the woman she fell in love with near...

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It takes me almost twenty minutes to talk Hollis into letting me play more of my road-trip playlist, then I almost immediately fall asleep to the soothing, repetitive melody of Al Stewart’s “Year of the Cat.” My eyes flutter open sometime later in response to a steady reduction in our speed.

Looks like we’re pulling into a rest-stop parking lot.

When we left José Napoleoni’s, it was still overcast, but now pink and orange streak the sky.

Chapter 1 31:24
Chapter 2 24:17
Key West, Florida, November 1944 06:33
Chapter 3 17:17
Chapter 4 13:31
Key West, Florida, December 1944 06:52
Chapter 5 16:20
Chapter 6 12:12
Chapter 7 22:45
Chapter 8 32:10
Key West, Florida, December 1944 06:28
Chapter 9 31:42
Chapter 10 24:14
Key West, Florida, New Year’s 1944/1945 04:36
Chapter 11 24:56
Chapter 12 09:08
Chapter 13 24:27
Key West, Florida, March 1945 08:52
Chapter 14 31:27
Key West, Florida, July 1945 06:27
Chapter 15 18:44
Chapter 16 10:12
Chapter 17 25:36
Chicago, Illinois, September 1950 07:14
Chapter 18 14:11
Chapter 19 07:12
Chicago, Illinois, August 1952 05:15
Chapter 20 11:47
Chapter 21 21:08
Washington, District of Columbia, October 1953 03:17
Chapter 22 08:10
Chapter 23 19:33
Chapter 24 20:24
Chapter 25 09:14
Chapter 26 22:25
Washington, District of Columbia, January 2021 01:44

Mrs. Nash’s Ashes

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