I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Claire Vaye Watkins

Claire Vaye Watkins' debut novel I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness is a dark, poetic work that explores the relationship between a mother and daughter. The mom struggles to find her place within her daughter's world as she grows up, running from the responsibility of being a mother and leaving the girl to navigate her own path in life.

The audiobook starts off with a narrator, who we assume is Lila, recounting the day that her father was killed in an automobile accident. We then jump ahead to find out that she has been living in New Mexico for 10 years and has just recently come back to visit her mother and grandmother. The novel opens with Lila's internal story. Lila continuously reflects on what relationships mean to her as she evolves throughout the novel.

What if you were told that the person you loved was actually a troll and also a time traveler? You know, just in case you weren't already scared enough. In this novel, we follow the story of two people who are meant to be together but will never be.

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness: A Novel is the story of a father and daughter who travel back to the Great Plains in search of their long lost past. It's a biracial family memoir with a dark twist. The author Claire Vaye Watkins was born in California, but her mother moved to Montana with her after she was born. Watkins spends much of the book's narrative describing her mother's last years before passing away, which give this modern-day western an old-fashioned feel.

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness: A Novel is the story of a woman torn between two worlds. In her professional life, Elizabeth grew up among the privileged in St. Louis, Missouri and became an anthropology professor at the local university. However, she had always longed to explore the American West--to join forces with those who had been marginalized and talked about rather than documented--and when she finally makes that choice, disaster falls upon her. On one hand, Elizabeth finds herself living among Native Americans in Montana's Crow Reservation; on the other, she discovers that her husband has left her for another woman while they were both members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).