The Red Word

Name: The Red Word
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah Henstra
ISBN: 9781681689890

Author: Sarah Henstra

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 03/13/2018

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry—particularly at a fraternity called GBC. When she wakes up one morning on the lawn of Raghurst, a house of radical feminists, she gets a crash course in the state of feminist activism on campus. GBC is notorious, she learns, nicknamed "Gang Bang Central" and a prominent contributor to a list of date rapists compiled by female students. Despite continuing to party there and dating one of the brothers, Karen is equally seduced by the intellectual stimulation and indomitable spirit of the Raghurst women, who surprise her by wanting her as a housemate and recruiting her into the upper-level class of a charismatic feminist mythology scholar they all adore. As Karen finds herself caught between two increasingly polarized camps, ringleader housemate Dyann believes she has hit on the perfect way to expose and bring down the fraternity as a symbol of rape culture—but the war between the houses will exact a terrible price.

About Sarah Henstra

Sarah Henstra is a professor of English at Ryerson University. She is the author of the young adult novel Mad Miss Mimic, which was published by Penguin Canada. The Red Word is her first work of adult fiction. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews

Goodreads review by jessica

this is not an enjoyable book. its not meant to be. its about rape culture and how it is systematically excused in the US, particularly on college campuses. and a story condemning that culture, as well as tying in and taking inspiration from greek mythology, was sure to be a winner in my eyes. so im......more

Goodreads review by Felice

A solid 4 stars! O sing of the American student body, glorious and young. We are the future!...Everyone on a university campus is equally young. We are all the same social class…We all wear the same clothes and listen to the same music…We are all giddy and hyperventilating in the superoxygenated atmo......more

Goodreads review by Glenn

Winner: Governor General’s Award for English-Language Fiction, 2018 It’s been a few weeks since I finished Sarah Henstra’s The Red Word, which won one of Canada’s top literary prizes last fall. But it continues to haunt me. Perhaps it’s because I live near a big university campus and occasionally pass......more

Goodreads review by Dannii

I have closed my year by reading what ended up being one of my favourites! The synopsis cites this a 'campus novel', which it is, that takes a look at rape culture, which it does. The reality of this book, however, is something that no brief synopsis or review of mine could ever accurately portray, s......more