{"id":1472,"date":"2025-07-11T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1472\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:13:06","slug":"greenwich-reads-together-2025-ben-shattuck-the-history-of-the-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1472\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwich Reads Together 2025: Ben Shattuck &#8220;The History of the Sound&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2232\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-11-071308.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2232px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2232\/763;\"\/>Greenwich Reads Together: a community-wide reading experience which engages all of Greenwich in exploring a single book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-7 ai-optimize-introduction\">A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often misunderstood and how history, family, heartache, and desire can echo over centuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\">In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greenwichlibrary.bibliocommons.com\/v2\/record\/S86C1537958\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The History of Sound<\/a>\u00a0examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations. In Ben Shattuck\u2019s ingenious collection, each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story. Mysteries and murders are revealed, history is refracted, and deep emotional connections are woven through characters and families.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenwichlibrary.org\/greenwich-reads-together\/2025-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">For more information<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-9\">Shattuck will speak in the Berkley Theater at Greenwich Library on Tuesday, October 28 at 7pm.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greenwichlibrary.libcal.com\/event\/13840299\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Registration<\/a>\u00a0will open three weeks ahead of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenwich Reads Together: a community-wide reading experience which engages all of Greenwich in exploring a single book. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-1472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}