Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine

THE REAL EDUCATION OF TJ CROWLEY by Grant Overstake, May Wuthrich [Adapt.], read by Dani Martineck, Dion Graham, Tavia Gilbert, Johnny Heller, Shayna Small, Michael Crouch, Sheila Brown Kinnard, and a Full Cast

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Grant Overstake’s audio drama details racial strife in Wichita, Kansas, in 1968. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss the full cast and fine production values. A seventh-grade boy’s life becomes upended when a Black family moves in next door. The narrators of this fraught coming-of-age story are excellent. The audio drama has moments of remarkable verisimilitude: from the play-by-play announcing of a basketball game to the whirring of a helicopter in Vietnam. Performed by a gifted cast, this slice of our history stays with the listener.


Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Grant Overstake.


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