THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE

Erik Davies and Phoebe Zimmermann narrate alternate chapters of this novel, which delivers very different perspectives of a marriage on shaky ground. Both narrators do a remarkable job conveying the couple’s interior lives. Zimmermann portrays Claudia, a 30-something filmmaker, as earnest and sincere, thoughtfully working her way through the tsunami of bad luck and worse decisions that threaten to destroy her marriage and her life. Davies plays her husband, Jeremy, with the perfect mixture of self-pity and petulance. Jeremy has skated through life on his good looks and charm, believing all the women who have told him how special he is. The narrators hold our attention by how well they inhabit the emotions of these characters. D.G. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2010]