I Become a Delight to My Enemies
By
Sara Peters
Release:
05/14/2019
Runtime:
2h 43m
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The subject matter, while in some senses timeless, is also very much of the present moment. I Become is a book of voices, disembodied, all of its characters from a nameless town where they experienced sexual abuse and terror. Contributing to the sense of secrecy and shame, some of the text appears occasionally as marginalia, like whispered comments from the periphery of a town’s main square. No two pages are alike. The text is often in fragments, abruptly cut, as if the speakers are hesitant about how much they should say. . . . [A]n aural immersion in a town of people who need to speak out, to reveal truths, to push back against the shame, to hold out hope.
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Dark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour, crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and psyche.
An experimental fiction, I Become a Delight to My Enemies uses many different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty, and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose vignettes to create a singular, unflinching portrait of a Town in which the lives of girls and women are shaped by the brutality meted upon them and by their acts of defiance and yearning towards places of safety and belonging. Read by a multi-voice ensemble cast, with original vocal accompaniment, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a hybrid in form and an awe-inspiring example of the exquisite force of words to shock and move.
The 15-person cast includes:
Angela Asher
Amanda Cordner
Tess Degenstein
Pearl Harbour
Maggie Huculak
Pam Hyatt
Jani Lauzon
Justin Miller
Amy Nostbakken
Paloma Nuñez
Martin Roach
Norah Sadava
Amelia Sargisson
Nicole Stamp
Michaela Washburn
An experimental fiction, I Become a Delight to My Enemies uses many different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty, and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose vignettes to create a singular, unflinching portrait of a Town in which the lives of girls and women are shaped by the brutality meted upon them and by their acts of defiance and yearning towards places of safety and belonging. Read by a multi-voice ensemble cast, with original vocal accompaniment, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a hybrid in form and an awe-inspiring example of the exquisite force of words to shock and move.
The 15-person cast includes:
Angela Asher
Amanda Cordner
Tess Degenstein
Pearl Harbour
Maggie Huculak
Pam Hyatt
Jani Lauzon
Justin Miller
Amy Nostbakken
Paloma Nuñez
Martin Roach
Norah Sadava
Amelia Sargisson
Nicole Stamp
Michaela Washburn
Release:
2019-05-14
Runtime:
2h 43m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780771073588
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
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