Sara Hillis
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70 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Sara Hillis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's when he had his child.
And so he's actually dying of heart failure.
But he wants to write...
this letter to his son to kind of say i'm not going to be here for you but here's the things i want you to know about our lives and about our family and about like how to be a person in the world kind of thing and it's just sort of the letter if i do the math right the letters written in the 50s kind of thing so he's in in the 1950s uh having you know gone through a couple wars and
Other things in this little Midwestern town called Gilead.
If we, if we know the handmaid's tale, we don't like the word Gilead, but this Gilead's pretty good.
It's, it's, it's just a place where, where a bunch of people live and they're just hard workers and whatever.
And it's just, you know, there's not edge to it.
There's not any sort of ironicness.
Nothing like we like nowadays.
It's just a book about living your life.
There's a big point where he sees what he calls a miracle in the sky where the sun and the moon are kind of opposite each other, just the way the light falls.
And that comes back again and again.
It's like a really reflective kind of slow read.
And I don't know, I just, I dipped my toe into it and went, I was shocked at how joyful I felt.
Like I haven't, I guess joy is something we so much don't feel in this age.
And it's just a lovely book.
I mean, I haven't finished it, as I say, but beautiful letter voice, like his narrative voice, the character's narrative voice is great.
It's, yeah, I don't know.
I just love it so much.
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