DOUBLE TIME

Corinna Clendenen’s music-enhanced audiobook is so clever it’s a wonder no one has thought of it before. Clendenen augments her story about star-crossed lovers with seven songs by artists like Vampire Weekend, Susan Tedeschi, Matt Costa, and Blitzen Trapper. The songs were not written specifically for the novel but fit so perfectly that they might as well have been. Clendenen uses a full cast of eight actors, including herself, to tell the story of a complicated woman named Dani Jackson who marries two men and maintains separate lives in two states while trying to keep the family wool mill operating. And just when listeners think they’ve got it figured out, Clendenen shocks them. M.S. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2012]