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  • Daughters of Chaos

  • By: Jen Fawkes
  • Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
  • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Daughters of Chaos

By: Jen Fawkes
Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
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AN EPIC NOVEL ABOUT CIVIL WAR–ERA NASHVILLE’S “PUBLIC WOMEN,” AN AGE-OLD SECRET SOCETY, AND THE EARTH-SHAKING POWER OF THE FEMALE

In 1862, after a tragedy at home, twenty-two-year-old Sylvie Swift parts ways with her twin brother to trace the origins of an enigmatic playscript that’s landed on their doorstep. This text leads her to Nashville, an occupied city bustling with soldiers, saboteurs, partisans, powerful men—and powerful women. Sylvie translates the playscript by day, but at night, drawn into the work by the chief of the Union Army’s Secret Service, she acts as a spy.

Both endeavors acquaint her with a sisterhood whose members—including Hannah, a fiery revolutionary to whom Sylvie is increasingly drawn—possess potentially monstrous powers. Sylvie soon becomes entangled in the Cult of Chaos, a feminist society steadfast in its ancient mission to eradicate the violence of men.

Inspired by Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and the true story of Nashville’s attempt to exile its prostitutes during the American Civil War, Daughters of Chaos weaves together “found” texts, fabulism, and queer themes to question familiar notions of history and family, warfare and power.

“A dazzling synthesis of history, myth, and sheer invention. Fawkes is a bold, wild, funny writer, unafraid of taking risks. I’m eager to see what she does next.”—Charles Yu, National Book Award–winning author of Interior Chinatown

©2024 Jen Fawkes (P)2024 Recorded Books
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simply brilliant

Daughters of Chaos is such an innovative and original novel. I love the echoes that reverberate throughout the book, from playscript to newspaper article to letter to journal entry. I've not read many books that so effectively and innovatively employ the epistolary form. Jen Fawkes is a bold, funny, brilliant writer, and I can't wait to read more from her. I also very much enjoyed Stina Nielsen's narration. She did a wonderful job of inhabiting Sylvie Swift, who is, in ways, both character and author.

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