I Walk Between the Raindrops

Stories

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: T.C. Boyle, Cheryl Smith, Jason Culp, Derek Perkins, Jeremy Arthur, Stephen Mendel, Johnathan McClain, Ewan Chung, Pete Simonelli, David de Vries, Nan McNamara, Rex Anderson

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In

In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And “Hyena” begins simply: “That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit—it was there and it came for him.”

A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination.

Unexpected short stories

A wonderful compilation of unique short stories! Highly recommend. Just make sure you have Siri be able to rewind a few minutes here and there as they are complex and quick.

Sublime as always; terrible sound editing

All the TC Boyle hallmarks we know and love are present in these stories. However, I venture that this recorded edition is suffering from COVID weirdness. TC narrates in a compelling way, but the audio sounds like he recoded it in his closet, unlike the other narrators who sound professionally recorded. Very uneven sound editing. Would never stop me from listening, though.

my first T. C. Boyle

a pretty consistently enjoyable collection. the author is subtle and poignant, but definitely not a page-turner.