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Podcast: Behind the Mic With Kirkus Reviews
Episode: GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Vinson Cunningham, read by Aaron Goodson
Description: Aaron Goodson performs Vinson Cunningham’s coming-of-age novel in a conversational manner. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss Goodson’s pleasing narrative style. His pensive tone works for the narrator and protagonist, David Hammons, the well-read but adrift young man who finds himself working as a fundraising assistant in the 2008 presidential election for the unnamed African American senator from Illinois. It’s a finely crafted story that includes smart and nuanced riffs on religion, money in politics, and life on the campaign trail. His observations create a timely listen.Read the full review of the audi...