BLUE SKIES

Alyssa Bresnahan narrates a satirical novel about the climate crisis. Cat lives in Florida with her frequently absent fiancé. On impulse she buys a pet snake for company. In California her brother, Cooper, an entomologist, loses an arm to an infected tick bite. Bresnahan manages to make both Cat and Cooper believably sympathetic without softening their unlikable personality traits: Cat is needy and often careless, while Cooper is selfish and frequently pedantic. Neither Cat nor Cooper is a bad person per se, and that is what Bresnahan captures in her portrayal of both. As lives and the environment spin out of control, Bresnahan maintains her calm delivery, creating a much needed counterpoint to the chaos. K.M.P. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2023]