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How to Be Safe

Audiobook
Fiction: Literary
Unabridged   6.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 04/03/2018


Kirkus Best of 2018
Washington Post Notable Books 2018

How to Be Safe

A Novel

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684410880
Digital Download ISBN:9781684410897

Summary

Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice at home when she is shocked to see herself named on television as a suspect in a shooting at the school where she works.

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Product Description

FORMER TEACHER HAD MOTIVE. Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice at home when she is shocked to see herself named on television as a suspect in a shooting at the school where she works. Though she is quickly exonerated, and the actual teenage murderer identified, her life is nevertheless held up for relentless scrutiny and judgment as this quiet town descends into media mania. Gun sales skyrocket, victims are transformed into martyrs, and the rules of public mourning are ruthlessly enforced. Anna decides to wholeheartedly reject the culpability she's somehow been assigned, and the rampant sexism that comes with it, both in person and online. A piercing feminist howl written in trenchant prose, How to Be Safe is a compulsively readable, darkly funny exposé of the hypocrisy that ensues when illusions of peace are shattered.

Reviews/Praise

"This is one of those books you don't know if you can read, and then after you don't know how you lived in a world without it." —Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World

"HOW TO BE SAFE is a blistering indictment of America's insanity: our devotion to guns, our addiction to masculinity, our obsession with muscling our way toward an exceptionalism built upon our own inflated sense of self." —Wiley Cash, author of The Last Ballad

Author Bio

Tom McAllister is the author of The Young Widower's Handbook and nonfiction editor of Barrelhouse magazine. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is an associate professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.