
One Two Three: A Novel
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"The smart choice of narrators Emma Galvin (One), Jesse Vilinsky (Two), and Rebecca Soler (Three) as the Mitchell triplets is entertaining in addition to their amazing synergy." (Booklist (starred review)
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From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times best-selling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again.
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 can’t speak. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed - tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab’s 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 mother’s endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone’s 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 they’ve 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 laugh-out-loud-grab-a-tissue 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, it’s our daughters who will save us all.
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- Listening Length15 hours and 59 minutes
- Audible release dateJune 8, 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB089XYPV5L
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 14 hours and 59 minutes |
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Author | Laurie Frankel |
Narrator | Emma Galvin, Jesse Vilinsky, Rebecca Soler |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com Release Date | June 08, 2021 |
Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B089XYPV5L |
Best Sellers Rank | #12,993 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #345 in Family Life Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #613 in Literary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #637 in Women's Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) |
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--It's billed as a novel for grown-ups, but it should be shelved in the young adult section.
--It's a riveting story, but it goes on far too long, spoiling something that started out really good.
--I wanted to love it because "This Is How It Always Is," also by Laurie Frankel, is one of my favorite books of all time, but I just couldn't love it that much.
This is the story of three sisters, 16-year-old triplets Mab, Monday, and Mirabel. They call each other One, Two, and Three based on their birth order and the number of syllables in their names. This is also the story of their town, Bourne, where 17 years ago a chemical company poisoned the town's water and the residents. Many, many of them died, including the triplets' father, many got cancer, and most of the children were born with birth defects. While Mab is considered "normal," Monday is autistic, and Mirabel, while brilliant, was born physically deformed with only her right arm and hand fully functioning, leaving her unable to walk or talk. Why not move away? Their mother, Nora, is mad. So very, very angry. And she spends her life, when she's not caring for her daughters or working one of her three jobs, fighting the chemical company and seeking restitution for the little town of Bourne. It truly is her purpose in life.
Then, quite suddenly, everything changes in this place almost everyone else forgot about.
This is the story of what can go disastrously wrong when unscrupulous, uncaring people are in charge and then get away with it. It's well researched in terms of science and law, so the novel feels authentic. We're all rooting for the underdogs here, and while the ups and downs, the incessant legal wrangling, and evidence sleuthing are at first fascinating, it all just goes on way too long. What Frankel tries to do is build the story to a climax we'll never forget, but unfortunately the result falls flat like a balloon after all the air has leaked out—and it's only because it took too long to get there.
Still, this novel is very well-written, as well as imaginatively written, with each chapter titled "One, "Two," or "Three" and told from the point of view and in the distinct first-person voices of Mab, Monday, or Mirabel. It's a clever writing ploy, and it works really well. Unfortunately, it's just not enough to pull the story out of the mire into which it eventually sinks.
A lovely bonus: This book is a love letter to libraries and librarians, while it also gives a tip of the hat to vocabulary words learned well and used appropriately in conversation.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2022

Ok I will try not to get too spoilery but I loved it. I loved the heartbreaking story. I loved the town descriptions. I loved the characters; especially the three sisters, but really everyone in this town. The characters are so dynamic and show incredible depth and growth. The pain and betrayal and loss. The weight everyone is carrying around; whether they were affected or not; is crushing. The story was so unpredictable and nothing like anything I've ever read. It kept twisting and I could not predict what would happen next. The bond between each sister - so unique and yet all so tenacious and smart. I loved it all.
I absolutely loved the audiobook narration; Mab, Monday, and Mirabel all have a different narrator and it's done so well.
ONE, TWO, THREE works on so many levels it’s dizzying. The three singular narrators are sisters growing up in--and indelibly affected by--a town decimated by a powerful chemical company that polluted their water. Their once charming, once growing small Everytown is now nearly a ghost town: no jobs and no future, nearly every resident’s health horrifically impacted by the company’s pollutants, and water no one will drink.
But this isn’t a soapboxy “issues” book--it’s a breathtaking character study; a moving portrayal of relationships in a fractured community that could be anyone’s; and a leap-to-your-feet-and-cheer story of “the little guy” standing up to the powers-that-be and refusing to be silenced or bought. Frankel’s prose is crisp and gorgeous, but it’s her characters who draw you in and keep you turning pages late into the night to stay in their world with them just a little bit longer.
The story of One Two Three is given to us in rotating chapters, through the distinctive voices of triplet sisters. Slowly we fall in love with each sister and are drawn into the mystery of Bourne, a small town where everyone knows everyone. A town that used to be bigger. A town where something has happened. I devoured this book in two days. It's funny, sad, suspenseful and timely. I love the way this author creates characters. They are so well formed and relatable -- even the villains. This family will stay in your heart.
I highly recommend this book. I also bought a finished Kindle copy and an Audible copy. One Two Three is great in print or audio. I hope you read this book enjoy it as much as I did.
Thank you to #NetGalley and MacMillan publishing for a review copy of this book
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5 stars indeed!