Audiobook Missing May by Cynthia Rylant in the ListenBook app
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Book description
Let's be real: grief stories often feel like they're written by someone who's never actually felt it, all heavy sighs and overwrought metaphors. Missing May? It's the opposite. It's the quiet, devastatingly accurate sound of a kid realizing the world just got a little less bright, and the way a voice cracks when admitting you'd trade anything for one more Tuesday with Aunt May. And listening to it as an audiobook? That's where the magic sneaks up on you.
Cynthia Rylant's prose is already sparse and potent, but hearing it narrated-soft, unhurried, with a gentle Appalachian cadence-turns it into pure, unforced emotion. You don't just hear Summer's loneliness; you feel it in the pauses between her words, the way the narrator lets silence hang after she says, "It's like the house forgot to breathe." The audiobook doesn't shout the pain; it whispers it, making the small moments-the smell of beans from May's garden, the way Uncle Ob's hands still remember how to shape wood-hit you harder than any dramatic monologue could.
And let's talk about the real genius of this Newbery winner: it doesn't offer cheap fixes. Summer doesn't suddenly "get over" May. She doesn't get a dramatic sign from the sky. Instead, the book (and the audiobook) shows her learning to carry the grief while the world keeps moving. The narrator doesn't sugarcoat the bleakness-Uncle Ob's whirligigs lying forgotten, the house "as bleak as winter"-but there's no cheap optimism either. It's just... real. And that's why it works. The audiobook's quiet rhythm makes the slow, painful process of remembering how to live feel earned, not forced.
You might think, "Another sad kid book?" But Rylant avoids the trap of making Summer a martyr. She's just a kid, stubbornly trying to figure out how to be okay when the person who made everything feel okay is gone. The audiobook's warmth-especially in the narrator's voice-makes you feel like you're sitting with Summer, not just reading about her. You hear the hope in the small things: a shared silence with Uncle Ob, the way the light falls on a photo, the simple act of deciding to plant beans with him, not just for him.
This isn't a book that pretends grief has an ending. It's a book that reminds you that missing someone doesn't mean you stop living. And the audiobook? It makes that truth feel like a quiet, hard-won victory. You'll cry, sure, but you'll also feel a little lighter, like maybe you're not so alone in the way you miss the people who shaped your world. It's not a big, dramatic story-it's the kind of story that sneaks up on you, sits down beside you, and says, "Yeah, I know. Me too." And honestly? That's the most powerful thing a book can do.
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