ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS YOU

John and Irene, a divorced couple, find themselves brought together after their 18-year-old daughter, Sadie, goes missing. Berg explores the feelings they experience upon their reunion while also providing glimpses of their shared past. Gabrielle de Cuir provides little differentiation in tone or pitch between the various characters. She does her best work with the voice of Sadie, injecting a slightly higher-pitched tone with all the sarcasm and disapproval of a teenager conversing with her parents. The result is a narration that does not enhance Berg’s slow-moving story. E.N. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2011]