The Invisible Years - Rodrigo Hasbún, Lily Meyer (Translator)

Category: General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Bolivia Coming of Age

Written by Rodrigo Hasbún, Lily Meyer (Translator)
Read by Gary Tiedemann
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
Release date: 02-24-26

“It’s impossible to get a single answer from the past. It’s not a key to anything. It’s just a place we go to trick ourselves.”

Andrea and Julián haven’t seen one another in twenty-one years—not since that tragic, fateful night their senior year of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shocking phone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel the truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their upper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia and the scandal that ripped them apart.

A writer unhappy in his career and his marriage, Julián has been novelizing the past for his next book, trying to make meaning out of the events that changed the course of their lives forever. “I’d thought that writing about that time would free me, relieve the burden of the invisible years,” he writes, “but often it seems that it’s done the reverse.”

Juxtaposing the naïve invincibility of adolescence with the grasping uncertainties of adulthood, The Invisible Years deftly weaves a coming-of-age tale that leaves the listener hanging on every word, even as they know how the cards fall in the end.