59 Min Released Dec 8, 2016

Family Ties

David Sedaris presents the three unconventional stories about family ties.  In Amy Hempel’s “The Dog of the Marriage,” a discarded wife finds abiding love among seeing- eye dogs.  The reader is Joan Allen.  Veronica Geng makes fun of traditional wedding announcements in “Partners”, read by Michael Cerveris, Patricia Kalember, and Isaiah Sheffer.  And William Hurt reads Tobias Wolff’s moving father-son story “Nightingale.” 

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