Michelle Porter is a winner of the 2024 AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award
Michelle Porter is a winner of the 2024 AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award, for the incredible narration of her novel A GRANDMOTHER BEGINS THE STORY, featuring 16 narrators.
About the award:
The award is given by AudioFile to truly exceptional titles that excel in narrative voice and style, characterizations, suitability to audio, and enhancement of the text. —AudioFile
AudioFile Review:
Sixteen narrators, many Indigenous, join their voices to deliver memoirist/poet Michelle Porter's haunting debut novel. Matriarch Mamé, voiced by actor Tantoo Cardinal, has passed on but can't settle in the afterlife as connections to her daughter, Geneviève; granddaughter, Lucie; and great-great-granddaughter, Carter, keep her tethered to this world. Geneviève, grittily voiced by Jani Lauzon, is seeking treatment for alcohol abuse, while her daughter, Lucie, boldly portrayed by Monique Mojica, tries to convince her own granddaughter, snarky but wounded Carter (narrated by Jenny Pudavick), to help her die. These vibrant, determined women are surrounded by others--including bison, two dogs, a car named Bets, and even the prairie itself--and are supported by them. Porter's dreamlike writing is enhanced by a delicate soundtrack interwoven with a playful fiddle and gently thrumming drums. —AudioFile
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