Places to Stay the Night

A Novel

By: Ann Hood

Narrated by: Eva Kantor

Libby woke up that morning and knew it was time to leave…

Libby Harper, unsatisfied with her suburban life, abandons Massachusetts, her two teenage children, and Tom, her husband of eighteen years. Depressed and feeling trapped, she is determined to realize her fantasies of Hollywood fame before it is too late.

Dana has been expecting her mother to walk out for years. Her older brother, Troy, who is always in trouble, has been struggling to get his mother’s attention for most of his life. But it is Tom, their father, who is hit the hardest. Once, he and Libby were the most beautiful couple in town. Rudderless without the woman he has loved since ninth grade, he is a man drowning when Renata Handy enters their lives.

Renata has left Manhattan behind to return home with her terminally ill eight-year-old daughter. She finds an unexpected haven with Tom Harper, her high-school crush—and his shattered family.

A Literary Guild selection, Places to Stay the Night is a story of the dreams we leave behind…and the ways we can find ourselves again.

©1993 Ann Hood (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Left me kind of sad

not a bad story. I didn't really care for how the reader made the men's voices sound that was a bit hard for me but all in all an okay listen at work.

Lovely and quiet

If you’re a fan of Anne Tyler or Stewart O’Nan, then this book is for you. A multi-voiced character study with themes of hope and love woven throughout. I was a young adult in the ‘90’s (when this was written) and was like a Time Machine to the past. Then ending is heavy handed but it didn’t ruin the book.

Ann Hood understands real people

Thank you Ann, even though, as usual, you made me cry as a result of exploring perfectly ordinary people like me and all the people I have ever known.

great story

terrible reader. she uses vocal fry for all male voices. this really detracts from the story