| Author: | Sarah Henstra | ISBN: | 9780802188823 |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic | Publication: | March 13, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Grove Press, Black Cat | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sarah Henstra |
| ISBN: | 9780802188823 |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Publication: | March 13, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Grove Press, Black Cat |
| Language: | English |
The Red Word is a smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at both rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go.
Rape culture has been getting a significant amount of media attention recently, and Henstra’s fictional take is nuanced, compelling, and very timely.
Though the author is Canadian, the novel is set on an unnamed American Ivy League university. Henstra captures beautifully the atmosphere of university life: the feverish binarism of campus politics, and the headlong rush of youth towards new friends and lovers, life-altering new ideas, new ideologies.
A novel in which politics and ideas are carried in a propulsive plot, The Red Word has a lot for reviewers to talk about.
This book moves, with commercial storytelling.
The Red Word resists easy answers about confirmation bias and seductions of ideology, and the dangers of assuming one can control the outcomes of social experiments.
Henstra is the author of the young adult novel Mad Miss Mimic (Penguin Canada), which earned positive praise. The Red Word is her first work of adult fiction.
The Red Word is a smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at both rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go.
Rape culture has been getting a significant amount of media attention recently, and Henstra’s fictional take is nuanced, compelling, and very timely.
Though the author is Canadian, the novel is set on an unnamed American Ivy League university. Henstra captures beautifully the atmosphere of university life: the feverish binarism of campus politics, and the headlong rush of youth towards new friends and lovers, life-altering new ideas, new ideologies.
A novel in which politics and ideas are carried in a propulsive plot, The Red Word has a lot for reviewers to talk about.
This book moves, with commercial storytelling.
The Red Word resists easy answers about confirmation bias and seductions of ideology, and the dangers of assuming one can control the outcomes of social experiments.
Henstra is the author of the young adult novel Mad Miss Mimic (Penguin Canada), which earned positive praise. The Red Word is her first work of adult fiction.
