{"product_id":"banshee-paperback","title":"Banshee - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel DeWoskin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamantha Baxter has a full, sane life--creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness.\u003c\/strong\u003e But when she gets a diagnosis that terrifies her, a lifetime of polite pleasing and putting others first ignites in her a surprising, pure rage. Maybe Sam will survive the surgery, and maybe not, but either way, she'll spend the next three weeks burning her life down: sleeping with a student her daughter's age, speaking every truth she's ever swallowed, and refusing to apologize for her wildest, most essential self.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Sexy and sad, dark and funny, ruthless and kind, this is Rachel DeWoskin's ferociously feminist masterpiece. Every page of it glitters with rage and with love...It radiates with truth.\" --CHERYL STRAYED, NYT-bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWild\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTiny Beautiful Things\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrave Enough\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTorch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A wicked, delicious ride towards an ambivalent redemption--angry, hilarious, all too true.\" --ALLY SHEEDY, actress and author \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBanshee\u003c\/em\u003e 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, author of \u003cem\u003ePoster Child\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Still Point of the Turning World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Raucous, white-hot, and page-turning brilliance...A singular and vital reading experience.\" --Gina Frangello, author of \u003cem\u003eA Life in Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRACHEL DEWOSKIN\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of six books: \u003cem\u003eBlind\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBig Girl Small\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eForeign Babes in Beijing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRepeat After Me\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSomeday We Will Fly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBanshee\u003c\/em\u003e. Her essays and articles have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times Magazine of London\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTeachers and Writers\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous anthologies. She spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera, which became the basis for her memoir. DeWoskin is on the core fiction faculty at the University of Chicago, and is an affiliated faculty member of the Centers for East Asian Studies and Jewish Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 6.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700398952511,"sku":"9781948340113","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9af9dea69a71ee57669e8f322f4dfc90_03d72bef-685a-4398-b9aa-c5bd7abf28af.webp?v=1765016589","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/banshee-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}