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Listen to Your Sister

A Novel

Audiobook
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Wait time: At least 6 months

"This fantastic ensemble of narrators excel equally at emotionally connecting to complicated emotional characters, elevating colloquial language, and enhancing mysterious, violent horrors." —AudioFile (Earphones Award)

This program features multicast narration.
For fans of Jordan Peele's films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, Listen To Your Sister is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel from electrifying debut talent Neena Viel.

Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessness, is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief, often at the same time. Dre, their brother, promised he would help raise Jamie–but now the ink is dry on the paperwork and in classic middle-child fashion, he's off doing his own thing. And through it all, The Nightmare never stops haunting Calla: recurring images of her brothers dying that she is powerless to stop.
When Jamie's actions at a protest spiral out of control, the siblings must go on the run. Taking refuge in a remote cabin that looks like it belongs on a slasher movie poster rather than an AirBNB, the siblings now face a new threat where their lives–and reality–hang in the balance. Their sister always warned them about her nightmares. They really should have listened.
"A knockout debut." -Ashley Winstead
"Incredibly original and seriously scary." – Nick Medina
"A brilliant fever-dream of a novel that effortlessly dances between horror, literary, and family saga—sure to appeal to fans of Grady Hendrix, Tananarive Due, Mona Awad, and Stephen King. – Maria Dong
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 28, 2024
      Viel’s frenzied and addictive supernatural thriller debut follows Calla Williams, a Black 25-year-old who must play surrogate parent to her reckless younger brothers, Dre and Jaimie, after their father dies and their mother abandons them. Calla makes for an anxious parental figure, driven by fear of what she calls her Nightmare: a vivid, paralyzing dream in which she is powerless to prevent her brothers’ gruesome deaths. After a night of separate incidents in which both Dre and Jaimie are saved from certain slaughter by mysterious female figures who savage their assailants, the trio—fearing persecution from the law—hightail it from their home in Seattle to a creepy remote Airbnb. There, Calla’s Nightmare erupts into reality, subjecting all three to a harrowing and bloody confrontation with their subconscious demons given visceral life. Viel depicts her characters’ terrifying ordeals as phantasmic expressions of the racial and social forces that have shaped their lives, and her portrayal of Calla as a sacrificing martyr whose love for her family is curdling into resentment gives her story powerful emotional ballast. Though the plotting is chaotic in spots, it nimbly focuses Black American experience through the lens of horror fiction. Viel should win many fans with this.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This fantastic ensemble of narrators excel equally at emotionally connecting to complicated emotional characters, elevating colloquial language, and enhancing mysterious, violent horrors. Kristolyn Lloyd portrays 25-year-old Calla as she struggles to hold her life together while raising her troubled 16-year-old brother, Jamie. Portrayed by Zeno Robinson, Jamie is reckless and frequently on the wrong side of the law. Eric Lockley depicts Dre, the uncommitted middle brother who is breaking his promise to help Calla raise Jamie. Calla would do anything to keep her brothers alive and safe, but neither sibling listens to her. And as Calla's brutal nightmares come to life, the siblings must escape to a remote cabin in the woods. A chilling and addicting performance. A.K.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine

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