Banshee

Banshee

By Rachel DeWoskin
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“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

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.

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  1. Odin
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    A woman's story every man should read

    This piece of writing covers a very short period of real time (3 weeks) in which the protagonist, Samantha Baxter, realizes she has breast cancer and through her stream of consciousness style of 1st person narrative, gives a provocative look into the mind of a woman in shock and resolve. As narrated by Hillary Huber, Samantha at 42, throws her life into a sort of chaos, mixing self-discovery and self-destruction as she has an affair and finds a mix of reward and regret. A rich, rewarding very personal revealing of a woman in crisis. Highly recommended.

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