Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin
Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin
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Wake, Siren
Ovid Resung

Author: Nina MacLaughlin

Narrator: Nina MacLaughlin

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/24/2020

Synopsis

In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of mythI am the home of this story. After thousands of years of other people’s tellings, of all these different bridges, of words gotten wrong, I’ll tell it myself.Seductresses and she-monsters, nymphs and demi-goddesses, populate the famous myths of Ovid's Metamorphoses. But what happens when the story of the chase comes in the voice of the woman fleeing her rape? When the beloved coolly returns the seducer's gaze? When tales of monstrous transfiguration are sung by those transformed? In voices both mythic and modern, Wake, Siren revisits each account of love, loss, rape, revenge, and change. It lays bare the violence that undergirds and lurks in the heart of Ovid’s narratives, stories that helped build and perpetuate the distorted portrayal of women across centuries of art and literature. Drawing on the rhythms of epic poetry and alt rock, of everyday speech and folk song, of fireside whisperings and therapy sessions, Nina MacLaughlin, the acclaimed author of Hammer Head, recovers what is lost when the stories of women are told and translated by men. She breathes new life into these fraught and well-loved myths.

About Nina MacLaughlin

Nina MacLaughlin is the author of the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter. Formerly an editor at The Boston Phoenix, she is a books columnist for The Boston Globe and has written for publications including The Paris Review Daily, The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, Bookslut, The Daily Beast, Cosmopolitan, andThe Huffington Post. She was also recognized in Refinery29's list of "21 New Authors You Need to Know." She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by aphrodite on December 11, 2019

this has to be one of the most impactful books I’ve read in a long time. I cannot begin to describe how gut wrenching and enlightening this book is. it is extremely hard to read and has countless triggers (sexual abuse, physical abuse, depression, among many others) but my god did it leave its mark.......more

Goodreads review by Anna (lion_reads) on December 20, 2019

3.5 stars Um, so content warning for everything from rape to incest and other extreme violence...no, really, brace yourselves. I thought this was quite an interesting collection. I remember liking Ovid's Metamorphoses, but if you've read Greek/Roman myths, you know they come with an aftertaste of fuck......more

Goodreads review by Emily on November 07, 2022

Unflinching, resonating, and vibrant, this stunning retelling allows for the wronged women of Ovid’s Metamorphoses to tell their stories in their own voices. Disturbingly honest, with sarcastic, bitter charm and beautifully rendered sorrow and anger, we feel the injustice of the gods taking libertie......more

Goodreads review by Kendra on June 17, 2019

If the folks in Ovid’s Metamorphoses were from New York and somewhat uncouth, they might sound like these retelling of their stories from MacLaughlin. Some of the reworking are fun in terms of humor and eroticism, but I didn’t really feel like these offered new insights or changed the relevance of t......more

Goodreads review by Margo on November 27, 2019

(4.5 stars) *trigger warning for mention of sexual violence in review and a general trigger warning for the book in general* I’m incredibly irritated with the reviews critiquing the vulgarity of this book. How it “disrespects” original narratives. I read this book as a reclamation. Rape is vulgar. Mu......more

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