Enter the Body

Enter the Body

2023 • 337 pages

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“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply spectacular.”—Michael L. Printz Award winner Laura Ruby, author of Bone Gap In the room beneath a stage's trapdoor, Shakespeare’s dead teenage girls compare their experiences and retell the stories of their lives, their loves, and their fates in their own words. Bestselling author Joy McCullough offers a brilliant testament to how young women can support each other and reclaim their stories in the aftermath of trauma.

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Ughhhhh Joy McCullough is so GOOD! I loved how these girls - GIRLs - were able to imagine their stories in some ways. Just amazing.

January 6, 2024

hell yeah this is for me, and for angsty teen feminist theater girlies (of all gender) everywhere

April 1, 2023

this book does what every feminist retelling version of shakespeare is trying to do

August 14, 2023

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