Do better, Audible! As for the narrator, I was fine with Jennifer Jason Leigh. I'd never have purchased the audiobook if I'd realized. Easily a paragraph on every page and in some instances, entire chapters are missing. You're missing a good third of the book when you listen to this. IMO, it should say this next to the title. My fault, I guess, for not reading closer, but Audible doesn't go out of their way to make this obvious. That's when I looked a little closer and realized that the reading is abridged. So, imagine my surprise when I'm following along for this book and I keep getting lost, can't figure out where the narrator is. This is particularly the case when I am very interested in the writing style, not just the story. So, if it's a story that i'm really interested in, I will listen to the audio book and follow along on the audio book. I tend to drift and miss a lot when I listen to audiobooks on their own and, too often, I get distracted by shiny things when reading books on their own. I love to read, but I have a short attention span. With the luxurious prose and emotional intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch has written a spellbinding new novel about love, betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence.

Passionate, wounded, fiercely alive, Josie Tyrell walks on the brink of her own destruction as she fights to discover the meaning of Michael's death. Soon, the two women find themselves drawn into a twisted relationship reflecting equal parts distrust and blind need. As Josie searches for the key to understanding his death, she finds herself both repelled and attracted to Michael's pianist mother, Meredith, who holds Josie responsible for her son's torment. 'What happens to a dream when the dreamer is gone?' is the central question of Paint it Black, the story of the aftermath of Michael's suicide and Josie's struggle to hold on to the true world he shared with her. But when she receives a call from the Los Angeles County coroner, asking her to identify her lover's dead body, her bright dreams all fade to black. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Michael introduces her to his spiritual quest and a world of sophistication she had never dreamed existed. Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, and denizen of L.A.'s 1980s punk-rock scene, finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday.

Paint it Black by Janet Fitch