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Plain Bad Heroines

Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)

"Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness—all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake." –O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

"Brimming from start to finish with sly humor and gothic mischief. Brilliant." — SARAH WATERS

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly

  • O, The Oprah Magazine
  • Buzzfeed
  • Harper's Bazaar
  • Vulture
  • Parade
  • Popsugar
  • Bustle
  • GoodReads
  • Autostraddle
  • Literary Hub
  • and more!

    The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit

    Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.

    Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the "haunted and cursed" Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, oppo­site B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern her­oines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it's impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.

    A story within a story within a story, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant read.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.


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    Publisher: HarperAudio Edition: Unabridged
    Awards:

    OverDrive Listen audiobook

    • ISBN: 9780062942883
    • File size: 560605 KB
    • Release date: October 20, 2020
    • Duration: 19:27:55

    MP3 audiobook

    • ISBN: 9780062942883
    • File size: 560673 KB
    • Release date: October 20, 2020
    • Duration: 19:37:54
    • Number of parts: 19

    Formats

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook

    Languages

    English

    "Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness—all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake." –O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

    "Brimming from start to finish with sly humor and gothic mischief. Brilliant." — SARAH WATERS

    Named a Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly

  • O, The Oprah Magazine
  • Buzzfeed
  • Harper's Bazaar
  • Vulture
  • Parade
  • Popsugar
  • Bustle
  • GoodReads
  • Autostraddle
  • Literary Hub
  • and more!

    The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit

    Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.

    Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the "haunted and cursed" Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, oppo­site B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern her­oines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it's impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.

    A story within a story within a story, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant read.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.


  • Expand title description text
    • Details

      Publisher:
      HarperAudio
      Edition:
      Unabridged

      Awards:

      OverDrive Listen audiobook
      ISBN: 9780062942883
      File size: 560605 KB
      Release date: October 20, 2020
      Duration: 19:27:55

      MP3 audiobook
      ISBN: 9780062942883
      File size: 560673 KB
      Release date: October 20, 2020
      Duration: 19:37:54
      Number of parts: 19

    • Creators
    • Formats
      OverDrive Listen audiobook
      MP3 audiobook
    • Languages
      English