![]() ![]() I listened to the Playaway and the reader really brings you into the story, like when you hear the recordings just like Hazel would, complete with spoken “commas” and other punctuation. More than a mystery, this is a character study of a woman questioning every aspect – her marriage, her sexuality, her familial relationships, her career – of her life. The secondary characters are well-drawn and the subplots add to the story and to our understanding of Hazel. Hello, Transcriber is her debut novel, inspired by her work as a police transcriber. She grew up on a farm in a small northern town and now lives near Milwaukee with her husband and two pugs. While a reader may be morally troubled by the decisions she makes, I think the reader will still feel empathy towards her. HANNAH MORRISSEY earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Hazel is unhappy with a number of aspects of her life, feeling stuck and unfulfilled. Hazel finds herself wrapped up in the cases, and the detective’s whose voices she hears into the night, questioning the choices that have brought her to where she is today. But there is an opening on the overnight shift for a police transcriber and crime is not in short supply in this small city that is slowly sinking into the lake. Hazel needs a job while crafting her novel and in Black Harbor, Wisconsin, jobs are not easy to come by. Review by Yvonne Selander, collection development librarian “ Hello, Transcriber ” by Hannah Morrissey ![]()
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