THE SECRET TO BELONGING written and read by Megan E. Freeman

Megan E. Freeman’s THE SECRET TO BELONGING is a powerful YA verse novel about escaping entrapment in a miserable life that makes no sense to a genuine home far away. The unnamed narrator suffers the situation brought by her drug-addicted brother dreaming of her escape to college and beyond until her parents tell her the money left by her grandfather for her benefit has been spent to enroll her brother in yet another rehabilitation program. Grief yields to hope when she’s accepted into a senior-year European exchange program. Hope leads to finding a caring family, finding love and her sense of self far away in Northern Norway. This is a true novel in verse, its spareness beginning in bleakness and ending in lyricism and rich sensory details in a life surrounded by beauty. Megan Freeman reads with a sensitivity to lines and rhythms and carefully conveys the immense spectrum of feelings in this poignant audio. The brevity of language accents the rapid-fire dramas and a haunting spareness. Find out more in the Purchase link below.