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In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Volvo

By: Alison Espach
Narrated by: Susannah Jones, Allyson Johnson
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Summary

Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

If you knew you were going to die in two years, would you still have gone with the Volvo? So begins the first question of this interview between the recently deceased Linda and her Volvo’s Market Research representative. Over the course of the rest of the interview, listen in and roll down your window into not only a woman’s marriage but a psyche. This brilliantly woven tale shines a light on our collective idiosyncrasies, neuroses, and desires. In the tradition of Sally Rooney and Maria Semple, Alison Espach threads the needle between humor and devastation and emerges a master of observational satire and millennial voice.

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A short story- insightful and very thought provoking- excellent.
Volvo- boxy but safe and suburbia vs living and passion

New sort of Tales of the unexpected

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Such great conversations, I love how the researches keeps trying to get the conversation back on track

Brilliant Short stories

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Not my usual genre, but this is both an interesting and moving exploration of a life told from the perspective of the deceased. Well-performed by the narrators.

Interesting short story

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I'm seriously blown away by this short story that packs so much of a person and emotion into such a small, strange package! The concept is amusing, an interview from a car company representative with a dead person, but between the author and the lead performer a wonderful and raw story is elevated into a jaw-dropping audio play that truly hits the mark.

Genuinely one of the best of the many things I've listened to in the Audible Included library.

Bravo!

Odd Premise Exquisitely Realised

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Passionate interview style of fiction, but I prefer stories with a beginning, middle, and end. This was just exuberant explaining of a one hour experience. Good enough though.

Interviews have no end

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