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Sign up todayEnter the Body
Length
4 hours 22 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Joy McCullough, Valerie Rose Lohman, Annie Q & Victoria Villarreal
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“Perfect for fans of Six the Musical, Enter the Body is both painful and dazzlingly hopeful. Ever optimistic Juliet leads Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia as they tell their versions of the stories so that they are center stage. After all, "... a bard is just a poet, a minstrel, a storyteller." ”
— Miranda • Loganberry Books
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“Talk about flipping the script. The girls of the Bard (Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, etc.) - none over 18 years old - call each other in and raise each other up as they each revise their own story, on their own terms. Huzzah! The full cast on this recording was magnificent, delivering iambic pentameter in a modern, chatty fashion. Brava!”
— Summer • Books Inc.
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“This is a brilliant reclamation of the young women of Shakespeare. It's about time these girls shook up their own stories. Beautifully read, the poetry of this book cannot be understated. ”
— Kaitee • River Bend Bookshop
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“Shakespeare's most famous female characters, most having died some sort of violent death on or offstage, gather in a liminal space called 'the traproom' that unites them after their final exit. The youngest four - Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia - break with the traditional isolation and silence of the space, finding conversations with each other and the courage to tell, or retell, their stories. This was an engaging audiobook, with different voice actors for each character, which kept them distinct. Note that general knowledge of the plotlines and themes of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Titus Andronicus is assumed, as the girls never fully recount their own violent ends or their place in the larger plays they come from. Enter the Body is an engaging telling and retelling, as female characters explore the thematic similarities of their stories - silencing, difficult familial relationships, falling in love - and meditate on who tells stories, who listens, and why it matters even if their endings stay the same. ”
— Lady • The Snail on the Wall
“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply spectacular.”—Michael L. Printz Award winner Laura Ruby, author of Bone Gap
In the room beneath a stage's trapdoor, Shakespeare’s dead teenage girls compare their experiences and retell the stories of their lives, their loves, and their fates in their own words. Bestselling author Joy McCullough offers a brilliant testament to how young women can support each other and reclaim their stories in the aftermath of trauma.
Joy McCullough writes books and plays from her home in the Seattle area, where she lives with her family. She studied theater at Northwestern University, fell in love with her husband atop a Guatemalan volcano, and now spends her days surrounded by books and kids and chocolate. Her debut novel, Blood Water Paint, was longlisted for National Book Award and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Debut Award. She is also the author of We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire and the New York Times bestseller Champ and Major.
Joy McCullough writes books and plays from her home in the Seattle area, where she lives with her family. She studied theater at Northwestern University, fell in love with her husband atop a Guatemalan volcano, and now spends her days surrounded by books and kids and chocolate. Her debut novel, Blood Water Paint, was longlisted for National Book Award and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Debut Award. She is also the author of We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire and the New York Times bestseller Champ and Major.
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“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply spectacular.”—Two-Time National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Award Winner Laura Ruby, author of Bone Gap
"Radically creative... This provocative book could inspire all kinds of fresh approaches to the plays, not to mention lots of engaging writing projects for students."—Washington Post
★ “Body turns Shakespeare on his head while honoring h"a radically creative book for young adults who are familiar with Shakespeare’s plays. McCullough resurrects the dead teenage girls Ophelia, Cordelia and Juliet and lets them speak in verse and to each other about their fates. (Lavinia from “Titus Andronicus” serves as a silent witness.) This provocative book could inspire all kinds of fresh approaches to the plays, not to mention lots of engaging writing projects for students. is talent as the girls retells their stories on their own terms.... Truly outstanding.”—Booklist, starred review
★ "By innovatively mining feminist themes of autonomy, exploitation, and patriarchy, McCullough boldly reconceptualizes Shakespeare’s version of the female point of view for a new generation of Bard enthusiasts."—The Horn Book, starred review
★ "Form as a mode of personal expression is conscious, deliberate, and stunningly effective here and elevates this novel above and beyond many run-of-the-mill Shakespeare retellings to a carefully constructed and emotionally resonant consideration of tragedy and autonomy.... This will be a revelation for teens seeking to claim their own narrative as a distinct and whole person outside of adult or societal input."—BCCB, starred review
★ "A strong, powerful look at the bonds women share and the power telling stories has to unburden us all."—SLC, starred review
★ "This entrancing, fiercely feminist examination of William Shakespeare's tragedies gives his female characters the opportunity to tell their own stories."—Shelf Awareness, starred review
★ "Elevates and reenergizes the canon; it’s an absolute must-read regardless of readers’ knowledge or opinion of Shakespeare."—SLJ, starred review Expand reviews
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