The Lola Quartet

Gavin Sasaki, a New York reporter, begins a downward spiral when he learns that he may have fathered a child when he was in high school. Unfurling the story at a slow pace, narrator Sarah Scott subtly portrays the flawed characters whose lives are changed by the secret of this child's existence--and the bad choices that result. While the story is depressing, Scott's performance is affecting. Alternating between the past and present, and weaving in the influence of the quartet that may have been the high point of these characters' lives, the story culminates in a climax that is surprising but inevitable. A.C.P. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine