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Other People We Married

by Emma Straub
5 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 5½ hrs. Dreamscape Audio. 2012 ISBN 9781611205602. $59.99; 5 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F
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Straub's debut collection of 12 stories mixes regret, remorse, and ironic insight to highlight couples and decisions. The big choices are already made (marriage, children, staying together or not), and yet small, everyday decisions can change a relationship completely with blinding speed. Narrator Coleen Marlo easily carries all of the characters in her voice. Even with multiple players in a single story, she smoothly transitions between men/women and young/old.
VERDICT Recommended for readers (both men and women) of pithy short stories of young couples set in modern times. ["These stories of love in its various permutations, gone wrong and right, are told with a captivating wryness...that readers will find tremendously appealing," read the review of the Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA) pb, LJ 2/15/12.—Ed.]
Reviewed by J. Sara Paulk, Wythe-Grayson Regional Lib., Independence, VA , Jun 15, 2012
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