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Learn moreIn Banshee, Samantha Baxter―wife, mother, poetry professor―learns she has breast cancer and then ruins her own life.
Tumbling through a catastrophic midlife crisis, she gives herself permission to partake in behaviors she’s observed in her male colleagues, including having an affair with a student her daughter’s age, ranting at board meetings, and telling her poetry students what she really thinks of their work.
Underneath biting, witty narration lurks a childish, confused, and unrealized adult woman hell-bent on destroying her relationships and professional life, all within the span of a few weeks.
Part comedy, part tragedy, Banshee dramatizes the emotions that lie behind our inhibitions―and the consequences of unleashing them.
Rachel DeWoskin is the award-winning author of five novels, including Someday We Will Fly, Blind, and Big Girl Small. Her memoir about the years she spent in China as the unlikely star of a Chinese soap opera, Foreign Babes in Beijing, has been published in six countries and is now in development at BBC America, where DeWoskin is cowriting a TV series based on the book. She is on the core fiction faculty at the University of Chicago. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, Seneca Review, and The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets.
Hillary Huber is a multiple Audie Award finalist, an Earphones Award winner, and an AudioFile Best Voice. She has recorded over three hundred titles spanning many genres and holds a bachelor's degree in English literature. A voracious reader and listener, she was raised in Connecticut and Hawaii but now splits her time between California and New York.
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“Banshee is the kind of book every woman I know wishes she’d written. Fierce, necessary, honest, a burn-it-all-down scorched earth policy to the toxic masculinity of this Age of Terror.”
“A ravishing book. Sexy and sad, dark and funny, ruthless and kind, this is Rachel DeWoskin’s ferociously feminist masterpiece.”
“A wicked, delicious ride toward an ambivalent redemption—angry, hilarious, all too true.”
“Raucous, white-hot, and page-turning brilliance…A singular and vital reading experience.”
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