MERCY STREET

Narrator Stacy Glemboski has a gift for shifting her tone as she portrays the two main characters in this novel. Her depiction of 43-year-old Claudia, an abortion counselor at a Boston clinic, is warm and compassionate. Glemboski effectively reflects Claudia's stress at the escalating threats of protestors. Glemboski's tone is colder when she voices the viewpoint of Victor, a racist sociopath who is fixated on his online "Hall of Shame," where he posts pictures of "whores" who want to murder their babies. When both hero and antihero face reversals, Glemboski delivers the ending with the irony it deserves. S.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2022]