Songs of Lost Things: Sonata for the Sun Audiobook

Audiobook narrated by Ashley J. Hobbs, delivered by Bookfunnel

The summer Lavender turned twelve, she was eager to dip her toes into the world of make-out sessions with her school crush and indulge in late-night misdeeds with her best friend in their raucous Newark neighborhood.Her father — with his guitar — had other plans. He wanted to continue cultivating her gifted musical mind and nudge her to begin preparing to apply to the local Arts Magnet High School.Instead, Lavender will suddenly find herself cast into an unrecognizable and dispiriting world where she fights to maintain her sense of self, connection to her musical gifts, and place inside her own family dynamics.

Later, as a woman in her thirties who never reckoned with how much of herself she’d relinquished in her tumultuous adolescent years, Lavender meets a younger man who reminds her of what she’s lost and surrendered. Upended in unexpected ways, she has to also confront ghosts from her past with the potential to topple the meager structures she’s managed to build for herself.

Will she reemerge from it all with her full self? Stable, whole, and accepting of love? Or will she fall back into the cycle of poor habits and questionable choices that persisted and framed her reality for decades?