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Sisterhood Everlasting: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Ann Brashares (Author), Angela Goethals (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)
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Return to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants... 10 years later

From number-one New York Times best-selling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting.

Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness.

Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever - but in ways that none of them could ever have expected.

As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.

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  1. Listening Length
    10 hours
  2. Author
    Ann Brashares
  3. Narrator
    Angela Goethals
  4. Audible release date
    June 14, 2011
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Random House Audio
  7. ASIN
    B0055QADUG
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 10 hours
Author Ann Brashares
Narrator Angela Goethals
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date June 14, 2011
Publisher Random House Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0055QADUG
Best Sellers Rank #83,982 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#913 in Fiction Sagas
#1,752 in Family Life Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#3,259 in Women's Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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1,641 global ratings
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If you're into this series, you're obligated to read this.
I wonder why Ann felt the need to write this book and do what she did...but it was good and made me want to go bond with my friends. It makes me wonder how we'll end up in 10 years.
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Lisa Kolarcik
5.0 out of 5 stars Bittersweet but perfect end
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2024
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I grew up obsessed with this series. I only recently found out this book was released and am so happy I did. Well written like all the others and the story was heartbreakingly beautiful.
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L.L.
5.0 out of 5 stars incredible, beautiful. transcending
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2023
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This is the most unexpected and transcending ending to this series. This fifth book made every doubt I ever had reading the first four look like the joke was on me. I can’t tell you how much this one spoke to my soul. Brashares, you are a genius. Thank you for writing a book that both comforted and changed me. I lost my husband this year and never had a sister. And I can see from your story and dedication that you’ve lost someone very close to you and you have three brothers. I needed this and I’m a sucker for an amazing ending. Much love to you.
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RMD
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but...
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2011
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Ann Brashares is an excellent writer. I have to say that first, because it's the strength of her prose that carries this novel, in spite of its flaws. If anyone with less skill with language had written this, it'd fall down into the three- or two-star region, because it has some *major* problems on a plot and character development level. However, it really is beautifully written, and I'm glad I read it; like all the books in the series, it's sad, but more than that, it's cathartic, which is a token to Brashares's ability to put her characters' inner lives into words, and to allow us to experience their suffering and healing with them.

But I have two really fundamental problems with the plot, one of which is more significant than the other. Doing my best to explain without spoilers, the less significant problem is that the romantic roadmaps that Brashares has laid out for three of these four women, who are my age, of my generation, are improbable. Not implausible; just improbable. Most of the women I know, right here with me on the cusp of thirty, have romantic lives that much more strongly resemble Brashares's odd woman out, and it just...it just doesn't ring true to me. It's possible that there is a group of four women out there in which three of them have undergone the same kind of romantic development, but its statistical improbability reduces the everywoman quality that made these women so charming as girls. The way Brashares has developed the romantic lives of her characters makes this novel seem more like a young adult book, and not a particularly sophisticated one, but the kinds of loss and uncertainty she deals with elsewhere in the book are genuinely the concerns of people in their late twenties, and would probably not be of interest to most teenagers. So, this is either an unsophisticated work of adult fiction, or a book for young adults with an unusual interest in the lives of the olds, which sort of makes it hard to say what age it's intended for. This is awkward, but not fatal.

The much bigger problem I have with it is that the core drama-inducing device--specifically, the letters--is internally inconsistent. The way she plays with her characters' doubts and fears drives the book, but the setup is so bizarre, from a character standpoint, that it threw me out of the narrative. I think that's about as much as I can say without spoilers, sadly. The problem is that there was clearly an idea that was dear to the author's heart, and that allowed her room to explore things within these four women that she wanted to explore, but no editor ever sat down and said, "This framing device is an interesting idea, but it is *tremendously* clumsy on the page. Fix it." I think she could've fixed it, if someone had pointed out to her that there was a problem and pushed her to correct it, but I don't think anyone did, and I think that's just bad editing. Writers get attached to clumsy plots; it happens. A good editor will help them work through it and the book will be better for it.

The biggest problem is that in *not* editing out the inconsistencies, Brashares has tremendously shortchanged one-quarter of her main cast characters, a pair of people who I think I can safely say are much-beloved and deserved better treatment. One of the women becomes Brashares's tool, rather than a person in her own right, and that diminishes both her and the book overall.
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Antonia Cardella
5.0 out of 5 stars Spoiler Alert! (Sorry, but there's no way I can review it without talking about it.)
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2017
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I read the first book in the series when it was published, on the recommendation of my editor. It was sweet, but until recently, I hadn't read any of the other books in the series. After rereading the first one again, I bought the series and read it. The final book is special. Tibby, who has been out of touch with the Septembers, sends them tickets to Greece for a post-birthday reunion. She has much to tell her friends, but when they arrive, she is missing. She is found dead the following day. At first, it appears that her drowning was an accident, but after reading a letter she had left for them, the friends misinterpret the meaning and believe she has killed herself. The friends spiral into guilt and despair, each in her own way - Carmen, keeping busy, Lena, in full retreat, and Bee, manically leaving Eric to cross California, and ultimately the ocean, to find Brian, answers, and an unexpected surprise Tibby left behind. Brashares takes the reader along with Carmen, Lena, and Bee on their journeys of grief, which they take separately. The magical realism just below the surface of all of these books is here, not in the form of a magical pair of pants, but in the form of the deceased Tibby. Tibby meddles with her friends' lives from beyond the grave, giving Carmen a fractious cell phone, sending Lena into the arms of Kostos, and helping Bee to recover from her angsty wanderlust. The most amazing thing about this story is the shift that happens to the three remaining friends when they discover that Tibby did not commit suicide, but drowned accidentally as a result of a degenerative disease she hadn't told them she had. While there were times the book became soap operaish, the feelings of the friends, and how they expressed them, were beautifully crafted. I was overwhelmed by grief when I thought that Tibby had killed herself, and actually sobbed with relief when I realized she hadn't. I'm a sucker for a happy ending, and this one was extremely happy, if a tad too perfect...
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One Hot Book
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn’t Put It Down
Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2021
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If you read the 4 books Ann Brashares wrote about Tibby, Carmen, Lena & Bee’s friendship, you’ll love her fifth novel that fast-forwards 10 years. Be warned, you’ll be needing Kleenex after Kleenex! I fell in love with these girls when they were 15. Please Ann, carry on their story. ❤️ Michelle
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shrimp
2.0 out of 5 stars 衝撃の展開でした
Reviewed in Japan on September 19, 2022
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トラベリングパンツ4部作のファンで、読みたくて原書にチャレンジしましたが、望んでいた内容ではなく、人には勧められません。日本語版が出版されなかったのはこういう理由だったのかと納得しました。
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Sonia Pai
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome story about Friendship and Love
Reviewed in India on July 15, 2016
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I don't have words to describe how beautifully the author has put the story in front of us. The story is so heart touching it just mesmerize u...
I just wish Tibby should have been with her friends till the end. Beautifully narrated. A must buy.....
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Miss-Tyk
5.0 out of 5 stars Why?
Reviewed in France on November 5, 2014
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So heartbreaking, yet somehow hopeful end to a fabulous series! I was not too sold on book #4, but this one is definitely welcome to complete my collection on the Traveling Pants Adventures!
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rosywillow
5.0 out of 5 stars The sisterhood has grown up - and so has the writing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2013
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Now that the four girls of the sisterhood are almost thirty, the way they think and act (and therefore the way they are written about) has matured. The story is by turns heartbreaking and inspiring, and left me feeling that I finally understood the love that bound them together.

The story begins as the four women are leading very different lives than the ones they imagined as teenagers. They are all in different cities; Carmen is getting minor acting roles and living a superficial, empty life on the edge of showbiz, engaged to be married. Bee is attempting to live a hippy, wanderlust lifestyle while living with her boyfriend who is a lawyer, Lena is teaching art and shutting most of the outside world away, and Tibby has gone to Australia with Brian. The pants are long gone, and their closeness "together and apart" seems to elude them until Tibby organises a reunion for them all in Santorini. What happens there changes their lives irrevocably, and threatens to destroy the sisterhood forever.

If you are looking for the teenage angst of the earlier books, this isn't for you. But if you are looking for a more adult perspective on life, love, loss and friendship, this book has it in spades.
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