

Banshee
Author: Rachel DeWoskin
Narrator: Hillary Huber
Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/11/2019
Categories: Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Lgbtq+
Author: Rachel DeWoskin
Narrator: Hillary Huber
Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/11/2019
Categories: Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Lgbtq+
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 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!
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
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
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
“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