Snag One Two Three Conceived By Laurie Frankel Print

have never read a novel by Ms, Frankel and was blown away by this audiobook!!!!! The narrators are great and with different voices it was easy to keep track of who was talking and the narrative flow was excellent.


The blurb for the book sounds a bit like something I might have read about or seen a film about before, But Im here to tell you that this novel is COMPLETELY UNIQUE!!! Its almost as if the characters are writing the novel themselves as I was listening.
THAT IS GREAT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!!

Triplets, Mab, Monday and Mirebel are young teens living in the small town of Bourne, Mab one is very ambitious, very intelligent and is always on the highest track at their school, prepping her for college and her SATs, Monday two is on the spectrum, she sometimes has trouble understanding issues but with the help of her sisters she is able to do well, She loves only one color, yellow, and all of her clothes, the foods that she eats and things in her room that she chooses are yellow, Mirebel three was the third born, she has multiple physical handicaps, is not able to walk or speak, but has a voice machine that she can type into with her one good arm.
Because she lives in a small town, she is able to get around in her wheelchair and everyone looks out for her, She is brilliant and really well beyond what the classes in her school have to offer, she teaches herself through books

Nora, the triplets mother, has been fighting for compensation from The Belsum Chemical Company since before the triplets were born.
The company was responsible for the towns water turning green, making residents and animals sick, Noras husband died from cancer at a young age, weeks before the triplets are born,

There are many in the town who have been harmed by this company, some are either too poor or too unhealthy to move elsewhere, The Company has continued to deny any wrongdoing or knowledge that they were poisoning the water, Noras lawsuit doesnt have enough physical evidence to prove exactly what the company did to their water supply, She has never stopped fighting for her girls and the towns future,

They say nothing ever happens in Bourne so the day that large land moving equipment starts rolling into town, everyone knows that something is up!

Nora learns that the Templeton family, the owners of Belsum, are moving to town she knows that they are planning on reopening the plant.


We watch as this town wrestles with the possibility of jobs with the plants reopening and their promises that this time everything has been tested and proven safe.
But they certainly have evidence of their past failures, most notably the triplets,

This was such a wonderful surprise and Im going to miss these characters, they will stay with me for a long time,

I can highly recommend this audiobook to everyone!!!

You may enjoy the interview with the author that I found on Facebook, the link is below!
sitelink facebook. com/watch/live/ In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does, . .

Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved, Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she cant speak, Monday is the towns purveyor of books now that the librarys closedtell her the book you think you want, and shell pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer.
Mabs job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne,

For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green, The girls have come of age watching their mothers endless fight for justice, But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyones seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets.
Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than theyve been alive, Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you,

Three unforgettable narrators join together here to tell a spellbinding story with wit, wonder, and deep affection, As she did in This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel has written a laughoutloudononepagegrabatissuethenext novel, as only she can, about how expanding our notions of normal makes the world a better place for everyone and how when days are darkest, its our daughters who will save us all.
When I saw that Laurie Frankel had a new book out, I knew that it would be one I would want to read, Then I read the synopsis and was even more convinced that this would be one I would love, And love it I did! I loved the setting, the plot, the characters, the struggles, the regrets and the ending,

This story centers around triplets born in a poor town, Bourne, that was devastated by a chemical company and their flippant and careless ways, The story is told through each of the sisters voices: One Mab the sister who feels the weight of the world on her shoulders simply because she is normal, Two Monday the sister on the spectrum who takes everything literally, and is emotionally challenged, but fine physically, and Three Mirabel the sister in a wheelchair who has extraordinary mental capacity and yet lacks physical capacity save for the use of her fingers and a voice box.


As the reader learns, this town is different than any other, Sickness and disease have ravaged and decimated most of its residents, It has had to morph into a town that caters to people with disabilities, Because that is what Belsum Chemical forced upon it, The runoff from the plant poisoning the water system and turning it sulphuric and green, Once it was aware of the catastrophic effects of their greed, the company picked up and left without taking any of the blame,

“I think about the ways cause and effect might break you, Bourne is a town of unexpected consequences, a place where what no one sees coming runs you over like a truck, ”

Although the town tried to force Belsum to assume responsibility, it was a David and Goliath fight with no results, The champion of the cause, Nora, the triplets mother, continues throughout the story to search for evidence, The evidence that will finally point the finger at Belsum and prove its culpability, The story was slightly reminiscent of Erin Brokovich, But only in purpose as these characters are all their own,

Without saying too much about the story and ruining the suspense for the reader, know that there are developments which bring Noras fight back into the forefront.
Belsum moves to reenter Bourne and reopen the plant, In a town with no jobs and no prospects, it proves easy to get people to forget the past and hope for a brighter future, There is suspense, betrayal, shock, unbelief, understanding and finally growth,

The character development in this book is sublime, The ways in which all the characters are interwoven serve to strengthen the story and yet also blur the lines between duty and responsibility, An overarching theme emerges parental expectations and children paying the price for the sins of a parent, Although this may sound like a book that is depressing and heavy, it amazingly is not, It is a story of acceptance, flexibility, fight and personal triumph, I highly recommend!

Thank you to Net Galley and Henry Holt for the advance copy of this book to read and review, Pub Date: June,. In a sleepy little town called Bourne where nothing ever happened and everyone knew everyone else a set of baby girl triplets were born seventeen years ago to Nora Mitchell and her husband.
Nora gave birth to her triplets naturally and as she got ready to push her babies out she decided to give them all names with the initial letter M.
First came Mab, the oldest, whose name possessed one syllable, and who would later have the ambition to go to college and leave Bourne, Two was named Monday because that was the day she was born on and it had two syllables, Monday was most definitely on the spectrum, She was the honorary librarian of Bourne, After the

town library closed, Monday made room for its books in the Mitchell home, Some of the books could even be found in the microwave oven, Monday was obsessed with anything yellow, She only ate yellow food and only wore yellow clothes, Threes birth was the hardest, Her birth came too slowly so the doctor had to help deliver her, Threes disabilities were the most pronounced and obvious of the triplets, Three was named Mirabel, mainly because it was a three syllable name and began with a M, Mirabel was the smartest sister even though she could not talk on her own, She spoke through a computerized voice box, Mirabel was confined to a wheelchair, It was Mirabel who initiated the names One, Two and Three for herself and her sisters, She used her fingers to call and indicate which sister she needed, Thus One became Mab, Two became Monday and Three was Mirabel,

Before the triplets were born, there had been a chemical plant in Bourne that had contaminated the water and their river and turned it green.
As a result, many babies, like One, Two and Three had been born with birth defects, people started being diagnosed with various cancers and Bourne became a town that no one came to visit anymore.
The property values in Bourne plummeted, None of the citizens of Bourne ever left because they couldnt, Nora, with the help of her three daughters, had devoted the last seventeen years of her life trying to find proof of this injustice and bring down Duke Templeton and his chemical plant.
Then one day a new family moved into Bournes former library, It was Duke Templetons son, Nathan Templeton, with his wife, Apple, and their son, River, Everything was about to change in the quiet little town of Bourne,

One Two Three by Laurie Frankel was an engrossing and thought provoking book, It was most definitely character driven with well developed characters, The plot was suspenseful and kept my attention on alert throughout, It was about hope, love, doing the right thing, picking profit over the well being of others, and the power and determination of young female daughters, I laughed at parts and cried at others, It was hard to stop listening to this audiobook which was brilliantly narrated by Emma Galvin, Jesse Vilinsky and Rebecca Soler, I particularly enjoyed Mirabels character and her voice, The audiobook ranhours,minutes andseconds, At the conclusion of the audiobook there was a bonus conversation with the author, Laurie Frankel, that I found to be very interesting, This was the first book that I had the privilege to read by Laurie Frankel but I hope to read some of her prior books and look forward to seeing what she plans on writing next.


Thank you to Macmillan Audio for allowing me to listen to this audiobook through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review, All opinions expressed in this review are completely my own, I listened to the audio of “One Two Three” by Laurie Frankel and encourage any audio lovers to do the same, The audio production added to the enjoyment of listening to the novels three teenage narrators, An added bonus: at the end of the novel there is a discussion with Frankel about how she was inspired to write the story, plus a discussion with the sound editor of Macmillan Audio.
I enjoyed listening to what goes into the production of an audio book, from hiring the perfect narrators to melding the three voices into the perfect production,

The Mitchell triplets are the sixteenyearold narrators, As the story opens, Nora, their mother is giving birth to the girls, She wants the girls to have names that begin with “M” with the first daughter a one syllable name, the second will have two syllables, and the third will have three.
It does make it easy to follow the girls, as I remembered who was who based upon their names, Sounds silly, but it works, The first daughter is Mab and she is a basic teen, Monday, the second girl is on the spectrum, and she was my favorite, Her insights are hilarious. Finally, Mirabel is the genius who cant eat, walk, or talk, She is wheelchair bound and uses a voice activating machine for communicating, We get to hear her inner musings, Because shes in a wheelchair, people treat her like shes a piece of furniture, so she hears a lot,

The girls live in a fictious town named Bourne, whereyears earlier there was a chemical spill in the water supply forcing the main employer to shut down, rendering the town a ghost town.
The people who stayed either had cancer, birth defects or other health issues, which the townsfolk believe the chemical spill caused, Nora is on a mission to make the employer pay for the towns devastation, The people who still live there are a quirky group and add enjoyment to the story,

The girls chapters are headed by their birth order, In other words, Ones chapters are Mabs, Two is Monday, and three is Mirabel, The girls lives are upended when the previous owner of the business comes back to Bourne and wants the factory to be reinstated, The owners bring their very handsome sixteenyearold son, River, with them, Well, there hasnt been a new person in town EVER, and certainly not a cute boy, The girls are conflicted, as their mother is aghast that the family has returned and she wants nothing more than to expose them and bring them down.
Meanwhile, River is a sweet boy who just wants to fit in,

This is a very funny, sweet, and touching story of three sisters who are comingofage and wanting to help their mother in righting a wrong.
The girls are so much fun, Even Mab, who is normal, brings enjoyment to the reader because she is getting ready for her SAT test and she and her BFF, Petra, are working on vocabulary.
The words used, LOL, you will chuckle, Monday will only eat yellow things and wear yellow clothing, unless its raining, and then its green, Shes the town librarian and has books everywhere, including the microwave because no one uses the microwave, Mirabel uses her furniture status to gain inside information, Nora, who doesnt narrate but nonetheless is a quirky character adds charm, as do the eccentric townsfolk,

I enjoyed this as a fun story that is well written, Its nice to have a story that brings a smile to your face,

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