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Sing Her Down

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This program features multicast narration.
"I read everything Ivy Pochoda writes. Her capture of the complexities, diversities, and insanities of today's life and culture is next to none. I loved Sing Her Down. The world will too." —Michael Connelly, author of Desert Star

No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-winning author of These Women.
Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at the Arizona women's prison—or so her ex-cellmate, Diosmary Sandoval, keeps insinuating.
Dios knows the truth about Florida's crimes, understands the truth that Florence hides even from herself: that she wasn't a victim of circumstance, an unlucky bystander misled by a bad man. Dios knows that darkness lives in women too, despite the world's refusal to see it. And she is determined to open Florida's eyes and unleash her true self.
When an unexpected reprieve gives both women their freedom, Dios's fixation on Florida turns into a dangerous obsession, and a deadly cat-and-mouse chase ensues from Arizona to the desolate streets of Los Angeles.
With blistering, incisive prose, the award-winning author Ivy Pochoda delivers a razor-sharp Western. Gripping and immersive, Sing Her Down is a spellbinding thriller setting two indelible women on a path to certain destruction and an epic, stunning showdown.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 20, 2023
      This devastating thriller from Pochoda (These Women) examines the brutal politics inside an Arizona women’s penitentiary and the bleak mid-Covid landscape outside it. The first section focuses on three inmates: Kace, who is haunted by voices of the dead; Florida, a wealthy young white woman who was an accessory to murder, driving the getaway car while high; and Dios, Florida’s former cellmate, who’s determined to make Florida admit she’s no better than anyone else in their situation. Due to the strain of the pandemic, Florida and Dios are released from their sentences early and flee parole on a bus to Los Angeles. On the way, the pair makes one bad decision after another, garnering the attention of Lobos, a detective who wrestles with her own guilt and rage after surviving domestic violence; their explosive interplay takes up the back half of the action. In muscular prose, Pochoda plumbs the psychological depths of her fascinating characters and extracts high drama from their shifting allegiances. This searing, accomplished page-turner deserves a wide audience. Agent: Kim Witherspoon, InkWell Management.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Sophie Amoss, Kimberly Wetherell, Frankie Corzo, and Victoria Villarreal expertly play off of each other's narrations to bring unrelenting suspense to this gritty Western. After Florence "Florida" Baum and Diosmary Sandoval are released from prison, they engage in a cross-state game of cat and mouse. Dios is as obsessed with pulling a violent truth out of Florida as Florida is about hiding from that truth. Chased by law enforcement and their pasts, the two face their final confrontation on the streets of Los Angeles. From the start, listeners know Florida and Dios are on a path to destruction, but the vocal performances make it nearly impossible to look away. And Wetherell's gripping narration of the still-imprisoned Kace, the pseudo-mystical storyteller, grounds the story overall. A.A.H. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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