Brave

In a strong and urgent voice, actor McGowan clearly conveys her anger at Hollywood’s male culture and women’s acquiescence to second-class status as underpaid, easily manipulated, and violently abused sex objects. McGowan, recently heralded as one of the “Silence Breakers” chosen as Time magazine’s “2017 Person of the Year” and among the first to accuse movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, persuasively narrates her view of Hollywood not as an entertainment business, but as a propaganda powerhouse that primarily reinforces the norms of misogynist culture. Her blow-by-blow reenactment of her rape by Weinstein is full of ghastly details and very difficult to listen to—especially knowing it is McGowan herself who is reliving the experience. With McGowan as both writer and narrator, this audiobook forcefully connects readers, both women and men, to the #MeToo movement. [em]A HarperOne hardcover. (Jan.) [/em]