Simon & Schuster Audio

9781797136172

STARRED REVIEW

Bomb Shelter

Bomb Shelter author Mary Laura Philpott reads her own audiobook with a Southern lilt, at times laughing or on the verge of tears.

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Review of ‘Bomb Shelter’

In her new book of autobiographical essays, Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives (7 hours), Mary Laura Philpott writes with gusto and pathos about navigating two extremes: practicing for what will never happen and postponing the inevitable. From removing turtles from her doorstep to dealing with middle-of-the-night emergencies, from controlling cholesterol…

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