AudioFile - Find your next great audiobook
Get our Newsletter

THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

by | Read by Cassandra Campbell

Contemporary Culture • 11.25 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2017

Cassandra Campbell brings her full complement of narrating skills to this challenging and provocative audiobook. Her style suits the seriousness and frustrating action of this story of twin brothers who escape hardship and danger in El Salvador to make a new life as undocumented immigrants in Northern California. Campbell's performance is both intelligent and understated. Even the dramatic scenes of the brothers' harrowing travel with "coyotes" through Mexico and detainment in the U.S. by the border patrol are read evenly. Her transition from the narrator's educated and informed tone to the twins' patois works well. The audiobook's long asides on immigration policy and how it affects the poor and desperate are handled gracefully. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2017]

Trade Ed. • Random House Audio • 2017

DD ISBN 9780525495758 $20.00

 

Library Ed. • Books on Tape • 2017

DD ISBN 9780525495765 $76.00

Advertisement Advertisement
The latest audiobook reviews, right in your inbox.

Get our FREE Newsletter and discover a world of audiobooks.

envelope

AudioFile Newsletter

Let us recommend your next great audiobook!

No algorithms here!
We pick great audiobooks for you.
Sign up for our free newsletter with audiobook love from AudioFile editors.

If you are already with us, thank you! Just click X above.

×

Thank you for signing up.

×

Thanks!

Thank you for contacting us!

Our group will review and follow up within 72 hours.
Thanks for your interest!

Back Home ×

Thanks!

Thank you for signing up!

Our group will review and follow up soon.

Back Home ×