THE MIGHTY RED

Most very good novels, like this one, cover a broad range of subjects, but they also often focus on some specific questions about human existence--in this case, what we do for love and how we recover from that. Narrator Marin Ireland manages to keep everything in this novel tied together without creating voices for all the numerous characters. She trusts the text to tell us who is speaking, and conveys emotional contexts and basic characteristics like speaking quickly or gravely or unseriously. The audiobook is divided into many short chapters with many viewpoint characters, covering a period from 2007 to the near future in Tabor, North Dakota. Love, change, and what we expect from one another all work on a group of memorable characters. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2024]