Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens.
In Isabel Kaplan’s timely audiobook, NSFW, an unnamed protagonist encountered misogyny at her job as an assistant at a Hollywood television network. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss how narrator Stephanie Nemeth-Parker rises to the many challenges the book presents. She expertly depicts the protagonist’s claustrophobic and virulent workplace environment, where she is sexually assaulted by another assistant. Her youthful and expressive tone brings added emotional intelligence to this tragically relatable story.
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