ELEANOR

Narrator Cassandra Campbell creates a dreamy atmosphere that beautifully highlights the magical realism in this audiobook about fate, grief, and family. Eleanor's parents have failed to recover emotionally from the accidental death of her twin 10 years earlier. Since then, the teenager has been experiencing bouts of fractured reality in which she finds herself in a parallel plane where time is no longer linear and destiny is not necessarily fixed. Campbell's performance smoothly mirrors the pace of the action, and her expressiveness projects Eleanor's tumble of emotions as she tries to understand what is happening to her and her broken family. Listeners will be caught up in Eleanor's journey to reconcile her alternate worlds, to find unconditional love, and maybe even to change the past. C.B.L. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2016]