Sing Her Down, Ivy Pochoda
Sing Her Down, Ivy Pochoda
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Sing Her Down
A Novel

Author: Ivy Pochoda

Narrator: Frankie Corzo, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Sophie Amoss, Victoria Villarreal

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/23/2023

Synopsis

This program features multicast narration.

“I read everything Ivy Pochoda writes. Her capture of the complexities, diversities, and insanities of today’s life and culture is next to none. I loved Sing Her Down. The world will too.” —Michael Connelly, author of Desert Star

No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-winning author of These Women.

Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at the Arizona women's prison—or so her ex-cellmate, Diosmary Sandoval, keeps insinuating.

Dios knows the truth about Florida's crimes, understands the truth that Florence hides even from herself: that she wasn't a victim of circumstance, an unlucky bystander misled by a bad man. Dios knows that darkness lives in women too, despite the world's refusal to see it. And she is determined to open Florida's eyes and unleash her true self.

When an unexpected reprieve gives both women their freedom, Dios's fixation on Florida turns into a dangerous obsession, and a deadly cat-and-mouse chase ensues from Arizona to the desolate streets of Los Angeles.

With blistering, incisive prose, the award-winning author Ivy Pochoda delivers a razor-sharp Western. Gripping and immersive, Sing Her Down is a spellbinding thriller setting two indelible women on a path to certain destruction and an epic, stunning showdown.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

About Ivy Pochoda

Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, VisitationStreet, and These Women. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France, and has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Edgar Award, among other awards. For many years, Ivy taught creative writing at Studio 526 in Los Angeles's Skid Row. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles.

About Kimberly M. Wetherell

A 2024 Audie Finalist and multiple Earphones Award-winning narrator, Kimberly M. Wetherell is a kaleidoscopic storyteller with a multifaceted history. Florida-grown and Brooklyn-cured, her journey to engage and inspire, be it as an actor, director, writer, or producer, has taken her around the world, working in a variety of mediums—opera, theatre, film, and literature—giving voice to smart, strong, not-so-silent types.In her work, just as in life, Kimberly refuses to be hemmed in by a single genre. In more than 100 audiobooks to date, her passion for vivid, cinematic storytelling can be heard in the abject terror of a twelve-year-old running from an avalanche, the awkward fumbling of a geeky teen’s first kiss, or the villainous glee of a serial killer that not even Jessica Fletcher saw coming. Her obsession with languages and dialects, combined with her keen musical ear, brings authenticity to characters from Paris, France to Paris, Texas and all points in-between.In short, she’s manic-pixie quirk, slathered in GenX snark, dusted with ebullient bookishness, and boy howdy, does she have a story to tell you.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jayme

“Darkness lives in women too-despite the world’s refusal to see it” Florence "Florida" Baum and her ex-cellmate, Diosmary “Dios” Sandoval, are released from an AZ prison early, due to overcrowding during the Covid pandemic. They are to quarantine in the Sleep Away, a motor court style motel, for two......more

Goodreads review by Rosh

In a Nutshell: A gritty cat-and-mouse chase thriller focussing on one woman’s obsession with another, the differentiator being that both women are just-released prisoners. A bit too grisly for my taste. But the author *can* write, no doubt! Story Synopsis: Florence Baum, known to her prison mates as “......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

In this novel, author Ivy Pochoda explores violence in women, and through the lives and actions of her characters, speculates about what made them vicious. Is violence an innate characteristic? Or does it stem from poverty, harassment, molestation, injustice, brutality, and the like. Warning: There'......more

Goodreads review by karen

four pages in and i'm already so in love with this one. ivy pochoda ALWAYS BRINGS IT.......more

Quotes

"A thoroughly entertaining, mean-as-a-snake modern Western, Sing Her Down hits like a shotgun blast."
—Dennis Lehane, author of Small Mercies

“Sing Her Down is that rare novel that explodes your expectations from the very first page and goes on doing so until the end. Ivy Pochoda finds these characters at the root of their pain and desire. The prose is flayed and taut, the iconic episodes just keep stacking up, and the entirety has the epic intensity of a murder ballad.” —Jonathan Lethem, author of The Arrest

“I read everything Ivy Pochoda writes. Her capture of the complexities, diversities, and insanities of today’s life and culture is next to none. I loved Sing Her Down. The world will too.” —Michael Connelly, author of Desert Star

“Urgent, haunting, and fearless, Ivy Pochoda’s Sing Her Down has the grit and guile of Rachel Kushner, but with a ferocious empathy all Pochoda’s own. Pochoda proves herself a singular portraitist of Los Angeles, and Sing Her Down is her most ambitious and accomplished novel yet.” —Megan Abbott, author of The Turnout

“Ivy Pochoda once again writes with empathy about a world of unseen, unheard women—this time, two former cellmates whose lives remain entangled after their sudden release from prison. Sing Her Down is a stunning thriller, at once beautiful and gritty. Pochoda is a major talent.” —Alafair Burke, The New York Times bestselling author of Find Me

“Sing Her Down is an incantation, a hallucination, a fiery odyssey of women taking back the power stolen and leached from body and mind, while their souls got harder and harder—like diamonds. Ivy Pochoda's women inhabit a world everyone should walk into with them, a universe everyone should know.” —Susan Straight, author of Mecca

Awards

  • NPR Best Book of the Year
  • L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
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