She's a Lamb!
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A darkly comic suspense in the vein of All’s Well and Yellowface, She’s a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion.
Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver’s smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that’s why the part of Maria in the theater’s upcoming production of The Sound of Music is hers. Or it’s going to be.
Jessamyn may have been relegated to the position of childminder for the little brats playing the von Trapp children, but it’s so obvious she’s there for a different reason—the director wants her close to the role so when Samantha, the lead, inevitably fails, Jessamyn will be there to take her place in the spotlight.
This must be it. Because if it isn’t, well, then every skipped meal, every brutal rehearsal, every inch won against a man attempting to drag her down will have all been for nothing.
Sharp, relentless, and darkly funny, She’s a Lamb! is a cutting satire about the grotesque pall patriarchy casts over one woman’s delusional quest to achieve her dreams and the depths she will sink to for a chance at the life she’s convinced she deserves.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
An unstable woman sets her funny, ambitious, distressingly misguided sights on stardom in this darkly hilarious listen from Meredith Hambrock. Jessamyn is destined to star as Maria in a Vancouver production of The Sound of Music, she just knows it. So what if she didn’t land a role in the play? The director obviously sees her potential. All she has to do is secretly memorize the lines for Maria…and then make sure the actress playing her never takes the stage. Jess’ wildly entertaining delusions go far beyond taking on the completely unsolicited responsibilities of an understudy. As her determination spirals to psychopathic proportions, her status as a narrator goes from unreliable to completely unhinged. And narrator Stephanie Willing understands the assignment. As Jess instigates ever-increasing levels of destructive mayhem—all in the name of regional theatre—we can hear the mental cracks forming in Willing’s vocal performance. She’s a Lamb will untether you from reality in the best way.
