People Collide
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Henning
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Aida Reluzco
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By:
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Isle McElroy
About this listen
“One of the year's most compelling reads.”—Washington Post
“Its naturalness and ease with the most fundamental questions of existence make it a big project knocking around in a small package.”—New York Times
From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians, a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true partnership.
When Eli leaves the cramped Bulgarian apartment he shares with Elizabeth, his more organized and successful wife, he discovers that he now inhabits her body. Not only have he and his wife traded bodies, but Elizabeth, living as Eli, has disappeared without a trace. What follows is Eli’s search across Europe and to America for his missing wife—and a roving, no-holds-barred exploration of gender and embodied experience.
As Eli comes closer to finding Elizabeth—while learning to exist in her body—he begins to wonder what effect this metamorphosis will have on their relationship and how long he can maintain the illusion of living as someone he isn’t. Will their new marriage wither completely? Or is this transformation the very thing Eli and Elizabeth need for their marriage to thrive?
A rich, rewarding exploration of ambition and sacrifice, desire and loss, People Collide is a portrait of shared lives that shines a refreshing light on everything we thought we knew about love, sexuality, and the truth of who we are.
©2023 Isle McElroy (P)2023 HarperCollins PublishersCritic Reviews
"Daniel Henning narrates this unconventional novel with light humor and a hefty dose of bemusement that is fitting for the main character, Eli, who wakes up one day in his wife Elizabeth's body.... This is not a typical body-swap book, but a meandering exploration of gender identity, and partnership. Henning voices Eli with a range of inflections that capture the weird liminal space he inhabits. Aida Reluzco aptly narrates several sections that recount Eli and Elizabeth's backstories. Listeners looking for thoughtful speculative fiction about gender will not be disappointed." (AudioFile)