TIGERS, NOT DAUGHTERS

Narrator Luis Moreno's gentle voice provides grounding for an emotional story. It's told in the third-person narratives of the three Torres sisters, who feel trapped by their distraught father and their grief for Ana, their oldest sister, who fell from a window to her death. Moreno animates their sorrow and emotional distance as rage-filled Jessica tries to assume Ana's identity, Iridian loses herself in Ana's romance novels, and Rosa, the youngest, searches desperately for signs from Ana. Balancing them is Moreno's delivery of the first-person viewpoint of a distant but caring narrator, one of the neighborhood boys who witnesses the sisters' fascinating actions from across the street. When Ana's angry ghost returns, the sisters find a new unity. S.W. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2020]