The Names
The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life? In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son’s birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends fo...
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“Go on.”
He sensed this as the moment he’d pushed it too far. “The bill, please,” his father had said to the waiter. And then he’d sat staring into space and it was as though a shutter had come down.
He wants to explain, but realizes he can’t even explain it to himself, except that he has always wanted to be called Luke.
Outside the classroom, he sits against the wall, pinching at the birthmark on his forearm, watching as its misshapen heart outline disappears and reforms, disappears and reforms.
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- Prologue 12:32
- Chapter Bear 18:40
- Chapter Julian 20:06
- Chapter Gordon 27:34
- Bear 24:30
- Julian 22:37
- Gordon 32:19
- Bear 20:32
- Chapter 12 24:10
- Chapter 13 33:40
- Chapter 15 29:25
- Chapter 16 33:36
- Gordon 32:12
- Bear 46:25
- Julian 27:34
- Gordon 38:00
- Chapter 23 44:28
- Chapter 24 47:41
- Chapter 25 32:34
- Epilogue 07:01