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    Jitters-A Quirky Little Audio Book: When Radio And Polygamy Collide
    Jitters-A Quirky Little Audio Book: When Radio And Polygamy Collide
    Jitters-A Quirky Little Audio Book: When Radio And Polygamy Collide
    Audiobook6 hours

    Jitters-A Quirky Little Audio Book: When Radio And Polygamy Collide

    Written by Adele Park

    Narrated by Adele Park, Susan Paige Lane, Desiree Whitehead and

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    About this audiobook

    For radio shock jock Nancy Neptune, life is just one big promotion. But when she's sent to work at a radio station near a polygamist compound in Utah, trouble comes in triplicate. In a land where one good wife deserves another, Nancy Neptune hooks up with a drag queen and a one-armed reporter to rescue a mentally challenged polygamist who is being abused by one of his nine mommies and neglected by the other eight.

    Jitters-A Quirky Little Audio Book is narrated through a series of news reports with the characters reacting to the events of the day. Jitters features a cast of 15 actors who tell their stories in first person narratives. Don't miss this wacky ride through polygamist country, where the local radio station becomes a part of every news story they broadcast!

    Jitters is a 2011 Audie Award Winner in the Multi-Voiced Performance Category. Jitters also landed a coveted spot on Jimmy Fallon's Do Not Read List.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStraight to Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2010
    ISBN9780983707431
    Jitters-A Quirky Little Audio Book: When Radio And Polygamy Collide

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    • 5/5
      Love this series of books. Very funny, the narrator's are excellent.
    • 3/5
      Jitters is funny, clever and full of surprises. Set in the fictional small towns of Navel and Zion Flats, Utah, shock jock Nancy Neptune arrives to shake things up in the small Mormon community. Nancy has been exiled to a remote, risk-adverse radio station to be its program director and, dj the morning drive. (So, right off the first joke is on the listener as this isn't a radio drama; but a drama about radio!) The story of Nancy Neptune's impact on the community is told from several characters' points of view, each of the twenty-two chapters dedicated to a voice to advance the story. The format is such that each testimony is preceded by a radio news spot which also provides a tell as to the action off-camera. Nancy's presence is a lightning rod for events that have unanticipated results and, for a slew of eccentric characters including (but not limited to): an obese, divorced woman, a drag queen, a one-armed argro reporter/erstwhile detective and, a mentally challenged, inbred Yeti-like man who likes to sing along to Cheap Trick songs... While the easy laughs lie in the obvious idiosyncrasies of the characters, in the physical humor of their mere existence, the surprises come as the complexity of their characters is revealed.

      There are eight key characters and, a number of smaller roles and bits, all performed by the voice-over talent that Adele Park has assembled. Exaggerated accents/mannerisms provide each character with a distinctive and appropriate voice. Because the setting and premise of Jitters is predicated on the radio theme, the production quality also adheres to the same clear, perhaps over-articulated and harsh, sound.

      There is absolutely no subtlety here. The precociousness of the writing and of the performances can wear a bit thin; but it is certainly original in all regards.

      Redacted from the original blog review at dog eared copy, Jitters: A Quirky Little Audio Book; 09/08/2011