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A story of violence and nostalgia, the inextricable connections between identity and place, narrated by a woman who grew up in the comforting cultural geography of Lincoln, Nebraska, a town that made her feel so safe she became almost incapable of comprehending danger.
About the author
Amy Knox Brown is the author of a story collection,
Three Versions of the Truth (Press53); a poetry chapbook,
Advice from Household Gods (Longleaf Press); and
What Is Gone (Texas Tech University Press), which received the 2018 Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction: Memoir. Individual essays, stories, and poems have appeared in
Virginia Quarterly Review,
Narrative,
Crab Orchard Review,
Chest, and other journals. She holds an MFA from North Carolina State University, a J.D. from the Nebraska College of Law, and a Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. A fourth-generation Nebraskan, she is the Assistant Reporter of Decisions for the Nebraska Supreme Court and lives in Lincoln with her husband and their pack of animals.
Summary
A story of violence and nostalgia, the inextricable connections between identity and place, narrated by a woman who grew up in the comforting cultural geography of Lincoln, Nebraska, a town that made her feel so safe she became almost incapable of comprehending danger.
