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Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks

Getting Mother's Body: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Getting Mother's Body audiobook runs 7.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Suzan-Lori Parks (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.5listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2003released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Getting Mother's Body at common listening paces
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30 min / day15 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

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What our data says

  • At 7.5 hours, it is shorter than 66% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

2,092 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Getting Mother's Body is an audiobook by Suzan-Lori Parks: a 7.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Suzan-Lori Parks, released May 6, 2003, on the Psychological and Drama shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.5 hrs
Narrated by
Suzan-Lori Parks
Released
May 6, 2003
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Psychological, Drama, Literary Fiction
ISBN
9780739302989

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Getting Mother's Body audiobook?

Getting Mother's Body runs 7.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.

Is the Getting Mother's Body audiobook free?

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Who narrates Getting Mother's Body?

Getting Mother's Body is narrated by Suzan-Lori Parks.