Banshee, Rachel DeWoskin
Banshee, Rachel DeWoskin
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Banshee

Author: Rachel DeWoskin

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2019

Synopsis

In 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.

About Rachel DeWoskin

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.

About Hillary Huber

Hillary Huber is a multiple Audie Award finalist, an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, and an AudioFile Best Voice. She has recorded close to three hundred titles, spanning many genres. A huge fan of audiobooks, when she's not narrating one, she's listening to one!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on July 11, 2014

I received this book from the First Reads program. Thank you Penguin Canada. The novel takes place a year after Emma lost her sight, just as she's starting grade 10 in her old high school. It chronicles Emma's journey as she deals with the obstacles coming her way. The major problem is that there ar......more

Goodreads review by Whitney on October 20, 2014

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Goodreads review by Ömer on July 11, 2017

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Goodreads review by Amy on February 27, 2023

It's a special story with an unique perspective. It had some beautifully written parts which I loved. It showed how the world can have colours even when it's dark in your head.......more

Goodreads review by Robin on February 19, 2014

At 416 pages, this novel is a lot longer than most YA offerings. Sometimes, as with Harry Potter, the extra pages are not an obstacle, but in this case, some editing was badly needed. Blind tries to cover too much ground for one novel. Emma has a horrible accident which blinds her. She is whiny, any......more

Quotes

“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.” Emily Rapp-Black, New York Times bestselling author

“A ravishing book. Sexy and sad, dark and funny, ruthless and kind, this is Rachel DeWoskin’s ferociously feminist masterpiece.” Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author

“A wicked, delicious ride toward an ambivalent redemption—angry, hilarious, all too true.” Ally Sheedy, actress and author of She Was Nice to Mice

“Raucous, white-hot, and page-turning brilliance…A singular and vital reading experience.” Gina Frangello, author of A Life in Men

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