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THE THING THAT KEPT HAPPENING

6 books · By Bridget Enright · Complete and free

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  1. THE THING THAT KEPT HAPPENING Book 1

    4 parts · 13 h 49 min

    Florida and California, 1973 to 2022. Pete Warhurst, a Largo firefighter turned dispatch-software salesman turned mini-storage landlord, decides in 1997 that the truck is the problem and puts the container on the driveway instead.

  2. THE THING THAT KEPT HAPPENING Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 55 min

    Philadelphia, New York and Minneapolis, 1946 to 2024. Four Wharton students ask why eyeglasses cost more than a new phone, and put a prescription pair on the internet at ninety-five dollars. A suitcase fails in an airport, and two women who had worked on the eyeglasses build a carry-on at two hundred and twenty-five.

  3. THE THING THAT KEPT HAPPENING Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 5 min

    Colorado, Massachusetts and Washington, 1980 to 2025. An Australian living in Boulder tastes a passionfruit yogurt on a trip home and cannot buy anything like it where she lives. A Massachusetts beverage man squeezes real fruit into carbonated water because everything canned is made of flavoring.

  4. THE THING THAT KEPT HAPPENING Book 4

    4 parts · 12 h 35 min

    California, New York and Lagos, 1972 to 2024. A federal education statute passed in 1972 puts a generation of American girls into organized sport, and seventeen years later one of them starts a catalog because the clothes sold to her were men's clothes made smaller.

  5. THE THING THAT KEPT HAPPENING Book 5

    4 parts · 13 h 7 min

    New York and Palo Alto, 1996 to 2023. Four American companies are built against the same complaint: an industry that will not tell a customer what anything costs, who is any good, or what happens next. Two people planning a wedding build a bulletin board for brides on a dial-up service.

  6. THE THING THAT KEPT HAPPENING Book 6

    4 parts · 12 h 20 min

    Folsom and Fremont, California, and the aerospace corridor from Toulouse to Moses Lake, Washington, 1988 to 2026. An Intel test engineer from Wuhan cannot find the food he grew up on within an hour's drive, and builds a group-buying platform that nearly fails before he understands what the annoyance was actually about.