<p>In <i>Banshee</i> Samantha Baxter-wife mother poetry professor-learns she has breast cancer and then ruins her own life.</p><p>Tumbling through a catastrophic midlife crisis she gives herself permission to partake in behaviors she's observed in her male colleagues including having an affair with a student her daughter's age ranting at board meetings and telling her poetry students what she really thinks of their work.</p><p>Underneath biting witty narration lurks a childish confused and unrealized adult woman hell-bent on destroying her relationships and professional life all within the span of a few weeks.</p><p>Part comedy part tragedy <i>Banshee</i> dramatizes the emotions that lie behind our inhibitions-and the consequences of unleashing them.</p>
