DALVA

Multiple perspectives abound as author Harrison deals with Dalva’s current life, her troubled past and her great-grandfather’s chronicles of the annihilation of the Plains Indians. The book starts slowly, but Alyssa Bresnahan and Frank Muller skillfully draw listeners in as they narrate alternate sections, portraying Dalva and Michael, her lover. The narrators must work hard to keep the pace of the story moving through Harrison’s long descriptions of local landscapes and journal readings, which occasionally seem more like tracts than fiction. T.R. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 95]