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In the Hands of Men

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In the Hands of Men

By: Gin Sexsmith
Narrated by: Devery Jacobs
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This title contains mature themes, including sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.

Haunted by the loss of her cousin, Delilah has curated a world of revenge—playing judge, jury and executioner while, you know, searching for love.

Maybe murdering gives her the control she craves. Maybe it fills the gaping hole that Cedar left when she disappeared. Maybe this rage is ancestral, dating back to all of the Indigenous women before her whose cases were closed without much of a search.

She’s never been close to getting caught, but as a virus ripples through the world, devolving men into animals, she gets a little sloppy. Now she must ask herself, is she a monster too, or is she simply taking her power back from the hands of men?

©2023 Gin Sexsmith (P)2024 Audible, Inc. Editors Select Psychological
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An essential new voice in dark feminist fiction
In honour of Indigenous History Month in Canada, I want to highlight an incredible debut from an alumnus of Audible's Indigenous Writers' Circle, an annual mentorship and workshop program for emerging First Nations, Inuit and Métis writers. Gin Sexsmith's In the Hands of Men is an urgent and razor-sharp literary thriller that follows Delilah, a Mohawk woman who inflicts bloody retribution in the name of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in North America. As a virus that increases men's propensity for violence sweeps Earth, Delilah has to reckon with her choices and decide if she's righting wrongs in an unjust world, or becoming a monster like the men around her. If you enjoy horror and thriller stories from Indigenous authors (and there's been so many standouts in recent years from authors like Stephen Graham Jones and Jessica Johns!), I'm excited for you to discover an essential new voice in one of my favourite fiction subgenres. —Sarah U., Audible Editor

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Beautiful writing. Dark, important and impactful. Really gets under your skin to the emotions lurking in the crevices and forces them to stand up and shout.
And the narration suits so perfectly.

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