Write Who You Know

Ms. Saracho manages to weave together Latinx classism, belonging, and betrayal in an unsuspecting master class of engaging character study.

And she does it with a in a way that easily invites you in, almost as if you're coming in mid-conversation with a friend. And, indeed, we want to be Lucia's friend. We feel her loneliness, apartness - the diversity hire -  of being the only Latina in the room.

Her quick friendship with Abel - a life raft in the murky ocean of LA's industry politics - comes naturally. We like him too. We like them together. Abel calling her out early on and eventually opening up to her is what we all aspire in a friendship. They both have problems, but together they can rise above them.

But don't we forget, we're in Hollywood, baby.

Lucia's transformation into an LA TV writer is slow, but she eventually learns how to play the game, no matter what the cost.

That soft Fade Out in the end is brutal - harsher than any slam of a door - an erasure of what could have been, an understanding of how things work around here.

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Encore!

The best listen I’ve had in a while. Makes me want to re-listen to The Barbarian Nurseries. Tanya—more, more, more! Give us a novel. Excellent narration too. A+

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30 Minutes From Finishing This Book But ....

I seriously don't understand the use of the "F" word so often in this, and other, books. Do young women, especially, speak this way in real life because no one I know or grew up with spoke this way. I am a Mexican woman born in America like Abel, but in all my 66 years have NEVER spoke that F word - EVER. Maybe that's why it's so hard to believe women speak that way all the time these days. Either that or authors are trying to make their books more attractive to .... to ..... to who???? It is a sad, sad shame and I am disappointed in this Mexican author. I was looking forward to reading more of her writing. Maybe not anymore.

Finished now and ending is VERY UNSATISFYING!!! Such a shame ---

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Really Good

I recommend you get this story/play if you are looking for a quick engaging listen. I usually don’t enjoy the plays on audio, but this one works well for my brain. Only two voices really helped as well.

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Overdone

The plot, writing and acting is all overdone.
The characters don't like anyone or anything and continually talk about it!!

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Wildly racist

The actors were excellent. Everything else was hard to listen to. The main character clings to her ethnicity as her only personality trait.

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WOW!!

WOW, is the only thing that I can say! She had everybody caught off guard!

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Well done

Great little story. Personally, I thought the ending was perfect. I it's whatever you want it to be.

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Happy it was free

I fast forwarded through it to finish and still feel that I wasted my time. The narrators did a good job though.

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Where is the rest of the story!

this could have used a little direction of time passing or scene changes BUT the most important critique is that it ends VERY ABRUPTLY! We're in the middle of the story and it just ends! I thought i hit the fast forward button by mistake. left me irritated

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