The Red Word

Awards:   Short-listed for Republic of Consciousness 2020 Winner of Governor General's Literary Award 2018
Author:   Sarah Henstra
Publisher:   Tramp Press
ISBN:  

9781999700874


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Format:   Paperback
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The Red Word


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  • Short-listed for Republic of Consciousness 2020
  • Winner of Governor General's Literary Award 2018

Overview

The myths don't have a clue what to do with women. They have nothing to say about us whatsoever. We need to build our own f**king mythology. The battle of the sexes goes to college in this smart, thrilling debut by university English professor Sarah Henstra. University student Karen is swept up in back-to-school revelry and when she wakes up after a frat party lying on the lawn of Raghurst, a house of radical feminists, she gets a crash course in anti-frat activism on campus. GBC ('Gang Bang Central') is especially notorious, she learns, with several names featured on a list of date rapists compiled by female students. Despite continuing to party at GBC and even dating one of the brothers, Karen is seduced by the intellectual stimulation and indomitable spirit of the Raghurst women. As Karen finds herself caught between two increasingly polarized camps, her feminist housemates believe they have hit on the perfect way to expose and bring down the fraternity as a symbol of rape culture... but the war between the houses will exact a terrible price. The Red Word offers a lyrical yet eyes-wide-open account of the epic clash between fraternities' time-honoured 'right to party' and young women's demands for sexual safety and respect. With strains of The Marriage Plot and reminiscent of the work of Zadie Smith, Donna Tartt and Tom Wolfe, The Red Word arrives on the wings of furies.

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Author:   Sarah Henstra
Publisher:   Tramp Press
Imprint:   Tramp Press
ISBN:  

9781999700874


ISBN 10:   1999700872
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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I haven't been able to stop thinking about The Red Word since I devoured it in one sitting. - LOUISE O'NEILL ; An aesthetically arresting interrogation of rape culture... Timely and brilliant. - KIRKUS ; An incisive campus novel... [The Red Word] raises essential questions surrounding class privilege, rape, and gendered power dynamics on campus. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. ; Henstra draws on Greek mythology to comment on contemporary issues-how assault can take on ambiguity and how the internalization of rape culture convolutes gender politics, to the point where constructive conversation is nearly impossible. - New Yorker. ; Sarah Henstra's The Red Word will get you fuming, laughing, cheering, and most of all, thinking. COSMOPOLITAN ; Timely and incisive [...] Infused with Homerian weight, the novel is appropriately Greek-focused, centering on a controversy between bad boy fraternity house Gamma Beta Chi, the radical feminists of Raghurst, and a young woman caught between the two when a set-up to call out the fraternity's rape culture leads to unintended tragedy. - HARPER'S BAZAAR


Author Information

Sarah Henstra is an Associate Professor of English literature at Ryerson University. She is the author of Mad Miss Mimic, an historical tale for young adults, and We Contain Multitudes, slated for publication in 2019. The Red Word is her first work of adult fiction. Sarah lives in Toronto, Canada.

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