Loose Woman, Beth Kaplan
Loose Woman, Beth Kaplan
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Loose Woman
My odyssey from lost to found

Author: Beth Kaplan

Narrator: Beth Kaplan

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Iguana Books

Published: 12/16/2020


Synopsis

“Loose Woman” tells of a life-changing year, 1979, when Beth Kaplan, a successful actor, surprised herself by agreeing to live and work with a group of intellectually disabled men in France. In this intimate, sometimes hilarious memoir, she leaves behind the backstages and bars of the Canadian theatre scene to embark on an extraordinary odyssey of self-discovery and redemption.

Reviews

“They say I’m a beast. And feast on it. When all along I thought that’s what a woman was.” Wow wow wow. I don’t really read a lot of poetry because I’m always very intimidated by it but when I saw a tiktok of a woman reading a few verses of this collection, I was hooked. Right from the beginning, t......more

Goodreads review by Misti

Fuck yeah...makes me wish I spoke fluent Spanish. Cisneros alternates between English and Spanish in her poems. She writes from the ovaries. If I ever meet Sandra I will buy her a beer and light her cigar.......more

Goodreads review by Uzma

I will keep this short because I don’t read poetry all that often… I don’t feel particularly as qualified to go in depth but- Someone said that Sandra Cisneros writes with her ovaries and there is truly no better description of this collection of poems than that. I’ve never read anyone with such a se......more

Goodreads review by beau

You Bring Out The Mexican In Me by Sandra Cisneros You bring out the Mexican in me. The hunkered thick dark spiral. The core of a heart howl. The bitter bile. The tequila lágrimas on Saturday all through next weekend Sunday. You are the one I'd let go the other loves for, surrender my one-woman house. Allow y......more