A Calling for Charlie Barnes read by Nick Offerman Audiobook Libro.fm

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From a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about an American family and one mans attempt to understand the many lives of his father

Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes and it doesnt appear to be going well Too often divorced discontent with lifes compromises and in a house he hates this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles his dreams dwindle further and an infinite past full of forking paths quickly tapers to a black dot

Then against all odds something goes right for a change Charlie is granted a second act With help from his storyteller son he surveys the facts of his life and finds his true calling where he least expects itin a sacrifice that redounds with selflessness and loveat last becoming the man his son always knew he could be

A Calling for Charlie Barnes is a profound and tender portrait of a man whose desperate need to be loved is his downfall and a brutally funny account of how that love is ultimately earned