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Sebastian Ritscher |
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BANSHEE
BANSHEE is narrated over the course of three short weeks through the uncensored voice and thoughts of Samantha "Sam" Baxter, a 40-something Midwestern professor of poetry, respectable wife of 19 years to Charles, adoring mother to college-aged Alexi, and woman on the verge.
A recent breast cancer diagnosis and surgery on the immediate horizon have her obsessing about her body and mortality, and she proceeds to use her terror, both involuntarily and on purpose - to unlatch from her own middle aged "good girl" life and self, diving into a hot and wildly inappropriate affair with Leah, her student and the same age as her daughter.
Done with all the pleasing and apologizing - the notion that a woman can do "anything" which really translates to "everything, and perfect" - Sam will Lean In to her pure id, "like a man," to see how far she is willing and able to let herself go.
BANSHEE gives us a modern-day Mrs. Dalloway with a dash of Humbert Humbert in Sam who is terribly flawed, controversial, and all the more compelling for it. She is a literary soul, even at her basest; her brilliant use of language to convey her plight is deft and entertaining.
Rachel DeWoskin is the accomplished author of numerous books including the novels BIG GIRL SMALL, REPEAT AFTER ME, BLIND (her YA debut) and the forthcoming SOMEDAY WE WILL FLY, and the memoir FOREIGN BABES IN BEIJING. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
Done with all the pleasing and apologizing - the notion that a woman can do "anything" which really translates to "everything, and perfect" - Sam will Lean In to her pure id, "like a man," to see how far she is willing and able to let herself go.
BANSHEE gives us a modern-day Mrs. Dalloway with a dash of Humbert Humbert in Sam who is terribly flawed, controversial, and all the more compelling for it. She is a literary soul, even at her basest; her brilliant use of language to convey her plight is deft and entertaining.
Rachel DeWoskin is the accomplished author of numerous books including the novels BIG GIRL SMALL, REPEAT AFTER ME, BLIND (her YA debut) and the forthcoming SOMEDAY WE WILL FLY, and the memoir FOREIGN BABES IN BEIJING. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
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Published 2019-06-01 by Dottir Press |
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Published 2019-06-01 by Dottir Press |