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Lynn Stegner's acclaimed novels and story collections have drawn comparisons to the works of Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Munro, and John Updike. Now in her new novel, The Half-Life of Guilt, Stegner tells the story of Clair Bugato and Mason Comstock. Together they journey to the world's largest saltworks in Baja California, where a proposed expansion threatens the California gray whale population, recently come back from the brink of extinction. In the midst of a conservation battle, they meet a mysterious son of Mexico, Rubio Cantú, who leads them to the powers that be. Their two-week journey sends Clair deep into the past, where she reviews the divergent paths she and her near-identical twin sister have taken away from a childhood tragedy. At the same time, Mason confronts his own unhappy past in Cornwall, England, with a father whose hate was stronger than his love. No other work of fiction patterns the warp and weft of human guilt, the homesickness only love can cure, environmental crises, the intrinsic conflict between international commerce and planetary health, and the necessity of forgiveness. The Half-Life of Guilt is woven from these themes, delivering to the listener an engrossing and transformative literary experience.

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Lynn Stegner's books include the novels Undertow, Fata Morgana, and Because a Fire Was in My Head, which won the Faulkner Award for Best Novel and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her novella triptych, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn, was awarded a Faulkner Society's Gold Medal. She divides her time between San Francisco and northern Vermont. Based in Virginia, Paige Reisenfeld is a classically trained soprano and stage actor turned SAG-AFTRA audiobook narrator. She was awarded ""Best Reader"" in kindergarten and this remains one of her favorite accomplishments! From her professional home studio, Paige has narrated over one hundred audiobooks for both publishers and independent authors. She works in all fiction genres, specializing in science fiction/fantasy, thrillers, and romance, and she also enjoys narrating nonfiction, especially biographies, science and technology, and true crime. On the rare occasion she is not in her sound booth, she plays cooperative board games (competitive ones are not allowed in the house), gardens, lifts weights, and spends time with her three cats and narration-and-real-life partner, fueled by all things cheese and coffee.

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