Narrator Lisa Flanagan has a confession: She loved school! She tells AudioFile listeners about why she loved recording THE FACULTY LOUNGE by Jennifer Mathieu, which explores the inner lives of teachers.
"The wonderful thing about Jennifer's book is she explores these people's lives in such rich ways, and always in relationship to their profession as teachers."—Narrator Lisa Flanagan
THE FACULTY LOUNGE
by Jennifer Mathieu, read by Lisa Flanagan
Penguin Audio
AudioFile Earphones Award
Lisa Flanagan performs this group story of a faculty at one public high school as if she were herself an entire acting company. At the beginning of the story's school year a superannuated substitute teacher dies ingloriously on a couch in the eponymous lounge. That episode and each one following introduces more linked characters, events, complications, and unintended consequences, sometimes funny, sometimes sweet, occasionally shocking, but all absorbing and believable. It's a deeply satisfying performance.
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