{"id":7339,"date":"2016-06-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2016-06-06T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:37:16","slug":"fiction-shows-difficult-truths-in-free-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7339","title":{"rendered":"Fiction shows difficult truths in free audiobooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

More free audiobooks from SYNC<\/a> so you can read with your ears!<\/p>\n

Each download period runs from Thursday through Wednesday, so grab this pair of strong stories now – you have free use of them as long as you keep them on your computer or electronic device.<\/p>\n

\"CD<\/a>How It Went Down <\/strong><\/em>(download here<\/a> June 16-22)
\nby Kekla Magoon<\/a>
\nRead by Cherise Boothe<\/a>, Shari Peele<\/a>, Kevin R. Free<\/a>, Patricia R. Floyd<\/a>, Avery Glymph<\/a>, Korey Jackson<\/a>, Hubert Point-Du Jour<\/a>, Peter Jay Fernandez<\/a>, Ezra Knight<\/a>, Myra Lucretia Taylor<\/a>, Brian Hutchinson<\/a>
\nPublished by Recorded Books<\/a><\/p>\n

I recommended this many-voiced story in early 2015 here<\/a> – still relevant, alas still being repeated.<\/p>\n

Black teen Tariq is shot by white Jack – now police, neighbors, family, and friends of both men try to untangle this not-so-simple tale.<\/p>\n

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man<\/i><\/strong><\/em> (download here<\/a> June 16-22)\"CD<\/a>
\nby James Weldon Johnson<\/a>
\nRead by Alan Bomar Jones<\/a>
\nPublished by Tantor Media<\/a><\/p>\n

As the first fictionalized memoir published by a black author, this compelling look at the life and travails of a biracial man strongly influenced many authors of the Harlem Renaissance and rings true today.<\/p>\n

How can fiction help us reflect on real life?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More free audiobooks from SYNC so you can read with your ears! Each download period runs from Thursday through Wednesday, so grab this pair of strong stories now – you have free use of them as long as you keep them on your computer or electronic device. How It Went Down (download here June 16-22) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[237,19,50],"tags":[163,127,22,4,94,11,20,5,37,16,18,43,49,15,21,35,33,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-historical","tag-african-american","tag-audiobooks","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-civil-rights","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}