Census
- Author: Jesse Ball
- Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 4:51:58
Synopsis
A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns.
When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely loves, a boy with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind, and with a desire to see the country on one last trip, the man signs up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town with his son.
Traveling into the country, through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet, the man and his son encounter a wide range of human experience. While some townspeople welcome them into their homes, others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. When they press toward the edges of civilization, the landscape grows wilder, and the towns grow farther apart and more blighted by industrial decay. As they approach “Z,” the man must confront a series of questions: What is the purpose of the census? Is he complicit in its mission? And just how will he learn to say good-bye to his son?
Mysterious and evocative, Census is a novel about free will, grief, the power of memory, and the ferocity of parental love, from one of our most captivating young writers.
Chapters
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001 Census
Duration: 11s -
002 Foreword
Duration: 03min -
003 Chapter 01
Duration: 11min -
004 Chapter 02
Duration: 16min -
005 Chapter 03
Duration: 12min -
006 Chapter 04
Duration: 39min -
007 Chapter 05
Duration: 29min -
008 Chapter 06
Duration: 29min -
009 Chapter 07
Duration: 31min -
010 Chapter 08
Duration: 12min -
011 Chapter 09
Duration: 04min -
012 Chapter 10
Duration: 11min -
013 Chapter 11
Duration: 08min -
014 Chapter 12
Duration: 09min -
015 Chapter 13
Duration: 15min -
016 Chapter 14
Duration: 08min -
017 Chapter 15
Duration: 05min -
018 Chapter 16
Duration: 07min -
019 Chapter 17
Duration: 08min -
020 Chapter 18
Duration: 15min