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In the Hands of Men

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In the Hands of Men

Auteur(s): Gin Sexsmith
Narrateur(s): Devery Jacobs
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This title contains mature themes, including sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.

Haunted by the loss of her cousin, Delilah has curated a world of revenge—playing judge, jury and executioner while, you know, searching for love.

Maybe murdering gives her the control she craves. Maybe it fills the gaping hole that Cedar left when she disappeared. Maybe this rage is ancestral, dating back to all of the Indigenous women before her whose cases were closed without much of a search.

She’s never been close to getting caught, but as a virus ripples through the world, devolving men into animals, she gets a little sloppy. Now she must ask herself, is she a monster too, or is she simply taking her power back from the hands of men?

©2023 Gin Sexsmith (P)2024 Audible, Inc. Créateurs autochtones Créateurs de contenu LGBTQIA2S+ Fiction de genre Le choix des éditeurs Les meilleurs de 2024 Psychologique Voix de femmes

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About the Creator

Gin Sexsmith is a Mohawk writer and musician from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, and member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation. Obsessed with the darker sides of our psyche, Gin’s work explores love, loss, sexuality, and mental illness.
Photo Credit: Duska Dragosavac

About the Performer

Devery Jacobs is an award-winning actress, writer, director, producer, and one of Hollywood’s most exciting rising stars. As a socially conscious voice from Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, she uses her platform to advocate for Indigenous and LGBTQ2S+ rights.
Jacobs’ producorial debut narrative film Backspot, which is also executive produced by Elliot Page and directed by D.W. Waterson, premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.
She is currently in production for Oh.What.Fun, a holiday comedy from Amazon MGM, in which she will star opposite Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Dominic Sessa.
Jacobs stars in the Marvel series Echo to rave reviews. She recently voiced the character “Kahhori” in Marvel’s What If…? series. The character is Marvel’s first Indigenous-Mohawk superhero and throughout the entirety of her episode, Jacobs exclusively speaks in the Mohawk language. Jacobs starred as one of the leads in the groundbreaking, critically acclaimed series Reservation Dogs, which follows a group of four Indigenous teens who live on an Oklahoma reservation. For her performance as “Elora Danan” in the FX/Hulu series Jacobs earned back-to-back 2023 and 2024 Critics’ Choice Award nominations for “Best Actress in a Comedy Series” and a Gotham Award nomination for “Outstanding Performance in a New Series.”
Photo credit: Ryan Pfluger

Editorial Review

An essential new voice in dark feminist fiction
In honour of Indigenous History Month in Canada, I want to highlight an incredible debut from an alumnus of Audible's Indigenous Writers' Circle, an annual mentorship and workshop program for emerging First Nations, Inuit and Métis writers. Gin Sexsmith's In the Hands of Men is an urgent and razor-sharp literary thriller that follows Delilah, a Mohawk woman who inflicts bloody retribution in the name of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in North America. As a virus that increases men's propensity for violence sweeps Earth, Delilah has to reckon with her choices and decide if she's righting wrongs in an unjust world, or becoming a monster like the men around her. If you enjoy horror and thriller stories from Indigenous authors (and there's been so many standouts in recent years from authors like Stephen Graham Jones and Jessica Johns!), I'm excited for you to discover an essential new voice in one of my favourite fiction subgenres. —Sarah U., Audible Editor

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