Michelle Hoover, Other Press, $14.95 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-59051-346-0
Hoover's powerful debut tells the story of the intertwined fortunes of two early 20th-century Midwestern farm women. From the time Enidina Current and her husband, Frank, move into the hardscrabble farmhouse a day's wagon ride away from Enidina's...
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Michelle Hoover, read by Carrington MacDuffe and Bernadette Dunne, Blackstone Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-6272-6
Bernadette Dunne's distinctive gravelly voice, so effective in her recording of The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay, unfortunately makes her depiction of Enidina (Eddie), an early 20th-century farm wife, dull and droning. Carrington MacDuffe's Mary,...
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Kathy Reichs, read by Linda Emond, Audioworks, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4233-8091-7
Even with narrator Linda Emond's flair for Canadian-French accents and the proper pronunciation of multisyllable Hawaiian names, Reichs's 13th novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan could qualify as a test of audio...
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Michelle Hoover. Grove/Black Cat, $16 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2471-5
In her second novel, Hoover (The Quickening) presents a multigenerational family saga. Set in the Iowa plains in the years surrounding World War I, the book tells the story of the Hess family from the perspectives of the patriarch, a German...
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