In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Volvo

In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Volvo

Alison Espach

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Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all. If you knew you were going to die in two years, would you still have gone with the Volvo? So begins the first question of this interview between the recently deceased Linda and her Volvo’s Market Research representative. Over the course of the rest of the interview, listen in and roll down your window into not only a woman’s marriage but a psyche. This brilliantly woven tale shines a light on our collective idiosyncrasies, neuroses, and desires. In the tradition of Sally Rooney and Maria Semple, Alison Espach threads the needle between humor and devastation and emerges a master of observational satire and millennial voice.


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    Mar 09, 2025
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    Mar 17, 2025
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    This audio book is from the perspective of someone who is dead, doing an interview about her life and her car that she needed to buy. During the process of her buying her car, when she was alive, she had asked her neighbour Hank to help her buy her car, instead of waiting for her husband to return from his holiday.  Her relationship with Hank was never the best up until she needed a new car. 

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