A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN

The pervasive emotion of this audiobook is grievance, largely in the form of "Mom didn't love me enough." Three generations of Cohen women complain their way through four decades, finding different levels and varieties of success, largely without men. Stacey Glemboski brings the text to life with a vividly emotional reading, but the women tend to sound very much alike. They ARE very much alike--even the one who shaves her head and gets tattoos, is, in relation to her family, mostly just a kvetch. Glemboski differentiates them with subtle shifts of tone and timbre, and there is no confusion as to who is speaking, but it's hard to care about conflicts among characters so similar. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2024]