Under My Bed and Other Essays

Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women, starting with the working-class midwestern family she was adopted into and ending with her own experience of mothering daughters.

List of contents

Preface
Part 1. Origins
Under My Bed
Recreationally Terrified
Fracture
The Secret of Water
Firebreaks
Haunted
Part 2. Under the Skin
The Maternal Lizard Brain
Neural Pathways to Love
Body Language
Side Effects
Part 3. Risings
My Grandmother and the Sleeping Prophet
In-Between
Runaway Daughter
Woman Running Alone
Gratitude
Selected Bibliography

About the author

Jody Keisner is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Threepenny Review, Brevity, Fourth Genre, and AARP’s the Girlfriend, among other periodicals. Find out more at www.jodykeisner.com.
 

Product details

• Authors: Jody Keisner
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781496230478
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3047-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: American Lives
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries