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 ... Read moreon 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 Show Less