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The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright by Yvette Johnson

The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright runs 9.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Robin Miles (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.7listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2017released
Free for new listeners

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What our data says

  • At 9.7 hours, it runs longer than 75% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.

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About this listen

The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright is an audiobook by Yvette Johnson: a 9.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Robin Miles, released May 2, 2017, on the Memoirs and History & Culture shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.7 hrs
Narrated by
Robin Miles
Released
May 2, 2017
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs, History & Culture
ISBN
9781538427491

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How long is The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright as an audiobook?

The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright runs 9.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.

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Who narrates The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright?

The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright is narrated by Robin Miles.