Henry's Sisters
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نقد و بررسی
June 15, 2009
When the Bommarito sisters, Isabelle and Janie, hear that their domineering mother is going in for open heart surgery, they must forget the trauma of their childhood and return to their riverside Oregon hometown, Trillium River. Taking care of their mother and their demented grandmother (who believes she's Amelia Earhart) and watching after their mentally handicapped brother, Henry (possessed of an almost saintly, unconditional love for people), the independent sisters try to find a place in the world they've left behind. Lamb (The Last Time I Was Me
) delivers grace, humor and forgiveness along with a litany of family trauma, which might seem heavy-handed in lesser hands. Fortunately, this finely pitched family melodrama is balanced with enough gallows humor and idiosyncratic characters to make it positively irresistible.
The Bommarito sisters and their disabled brother grew up in a dysfunctional family, which two of the three of them wasted no time escaping. Narrator Xe Sands gives every character a unique voice as Isabelle and her sister Janie are summoned home to help Cecilia when their mother has open-heart surgery. Isabelle's voice is staccato and unemotional as she recounts their past and her complex relationships with her family. Mother River sounds angry and judgmental as she takes out all the frustrations of her life on her daughters. The grandmother injects some comic relief as she insists, in her demented state, on being Amelia Earhart. Sands fills brother Henry's voice with love and enthusiasm as he embraces all of life with optimism and joy. N.E.M. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
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