Banshee Author:Rachel DeWoskin Samantha Baxter has a full, sane life?creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness. 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... more » 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.« less