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The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

By: James Han Mattson
Narrated by: Luke Daniels, Lauren Ezzo, Jesse Lee, Kate Rudd, Emily Sutton-Smith, Sandra Burr, Will Ropp, Jake Mate
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Editorial reviews

Editors Select, December 2017

It's amazing how differently you come to know a person when a book presents them from multiple perspectives. The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves does this, with a full cast of eight narrators each taking on the multiple first-person narratives that make up the story. While on their own each character (the mother, the sister, the online friend, the camp counselor...) may be considered an unreliable narrator, once you mix all of their accounts together you get something close to a full picture of a person and their story. In this case that person is Ricky Graves: a teenage boy who does the unthinkable. Whose suffering and ultimate response to that suffering creates an irreparable shift in the world of the many people who are a part of his life. As the listener, it's easy to put yourself in each of their places and wonder, "What f I did...? Would the outcome have changed?" With tragedy, it's natural to wonder why. The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves gives us a way of tackling this very human response. —Tricia, Audible Editor

Publisher's Summary

In raw, poignant alternating first-person narratives, interspersed with e-mails, gay chat-room exchanges, and other fragments of a youth laid bare in the age of social media, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves unravels the mystery of a life in all its glory: despair and regret, humor and wonder, courage and connection. 

A heartbroken and humiliated Ricky Graves took the life of a classmate and himself. Five months later, the sleepy community is still in shock and mourning. Ricky's sister, Alyssa, returns to confront her shattered, withdrawn mother and her guilt over the brother she left adrift. Mark McVitry, the lone survivor of the deadly outburst sparked by his own cruelty, is tormented by visions of Ricky's vengeful spirit. Ricky's surrogate older brother, Corky Meeks, grapples with doubts about the fragile boy he tried to protect but may have doomed instead. And Jeremy Little, who inadvertently became Ricky's long-distance Internet crush despite never having met, seeks to atone for failing to hear his friend's cries for help. 

For those closest to the tormented killer, shock and grief have given way to soul searching, as they're forced to confront their broken dreams, buried desires, and missed opportunities. And in their shared search for meaning and redemption, Ricky's loved ones find a common purpose: learning to trust their feelings, fighting for real intimacy in a world grown selfish and insincere, and fearlessly embracing all that matters most...before it's gone from their lives. 

©2017 James Han Mattson (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: LGBTQ+

Critic Reviews

"The narrators provide candid performances of key characters - including Ricky's older sister, Alyssa; online chat room confidant, Jeremy; and classmate and former bully, Mark. As narrators, they're especially skilled at drawing out the nuances of social media and 'real-life' communication. By turns heartbreaking and hopeful, this stirring and thought-provoking production provides no easy answers." (AudioFile)  

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