The Voyage: A Novel
About this audiobook
On a June morning in the century’s infancy, Cyrus Braithwaite—without explanation—orders his three teenage sons to sail from their Maine home and not return until September. The three boys and a friend board the Braithwaites’s forty-six-foot schooner and begin a perilous journey down the East Coast, bound for the Florida Keys. A storm abruptly ends their passage, leaving them stranded in Cuba, but when they telegraph their father for help, he does not respond. After their ordeal is over, no one in the family ever again mentions the voyage.
Now, almost a century later, Cyrus’s great-granddaughter Sybil is determined to know the hidden heart of the story: Why did Cyrus send his sons to sea? Why was their mother in a Boston hospital? What role was played in the drama by Lockwood Braithwaite, the enigmatic child of Cyrus’s first marriage? Sybil’s discoveries will change the way she thinks about herself, her family, and the America whose ideals the Braithwaites once embodied.
The author of A Rumor of War—acclaimed as one of the great books about Vietnam—here gives us a rich and gripping tale of adventure, courage, and the persisting effects of long-held secrets. The Voyage is a powerful novel about a family whose ways and deeds were once a template for the nation.
About the author
Philip Caputo is an award-winning journalist, the cowinner of a Pulitzer Prize, and the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including the memoir A Rumor of War, one of the most highly praised books about the Vietnam War of the twentieth century.
Jim Frangione has narrated over 350 audiobooks, including all of J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Other favorites: The Chet and Bernie Mysteries, by Spencer Quinn, Dennis Lehane's Live By Night, The Drop, and World Gone By; Anton Chekhov's Fifty-Two Stories, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Ben Tarnoff's The Bohemians, and most recently Philip Caputo's The Voyage. He's received over a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and was named one of Audible's Best Voices of 2016. He has narrated five books that AudioFile magazine selected as the Best Audiobooks of the Year: World Gone By (2015), Dark Carousel (2016), The Chosen and Lucy and Desi (both 2017), and J. R. Ward's The Sinner (2020). Jim is artistic director of Great Barrington Public Theater, a professional summer theater that develops and produces new plays for the stage.
