Morgan's Passing

13 hrs. 16 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Anne Tyler

Narrator Alexey Bagdasarov

Description

Late 1960s. Morgan is over 40; he has a wild, shaggy beard that makes him look much older. Morgan has an extensive wardrobe of the most bizarre costumes and amazing headgear—from a tropical helmet to a Napoleonic bicorne. Every day Morgan changes outfits, trying on new disguises, and in his strange costumes he wanders the streets aimlessly, escaping the home sorrow that weighs on him. His fantasies are an escape from reality, where he has a sweet but unremarkable wife, a brood of seven daughters, an unhappy sister, and a half-mad mother. Morgan—the inventor of his own world— is locked inside his family routine. He imagines that real life, stormy, bright, unusual, is somewhere very near, and that you just need to look at the world carefully—and one day it will open up to you in all its variety. And one day Morgan meets Emily and Leon—tramps by their own choice—who show puppet performances here and there. And from that moment on, Morgan’s life changes…

An eccentric, whimsical, ironic, sad, and very warm novel by Anne Tyler about family—its joys and its horrors.