Sex with a Brain Injury - On Concussion and Recovery

For readers of Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams, Melissa Febos’ Girlhood, and Esme Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, deeply personal essays seeking to understand head trauma through history, medicine, cultural criticism, interviews, and the individual and collective experience.

About the author

Annie Liontas is the genderqueer author of the novel Let Me Explain You and the coeditor of A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Gay Magazine, NPR, Electric Literature, BOMB, The Believer, Guernica, McSweeney’s, and other publications. A graduate of Syracuse University’s MFA program, she is a professor of writing at George Washington University. Annie has served as a mentor for Pen City’s incarcerated writers and helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. She lives in Philadelphia.

Summary

For readers of Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams, Melissa Febos’ Girlhood, and Esme Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, deeply personal essays seeking to understand head trauma through history, medicine, cultural criticism, interviews, and the individual and collective experience.

Product details

• Authors: Annie Liontas, Liontas Annie
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2025
• EAN: 9781668085561
• ISBN: 978-1-6680-8556-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 213 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 254 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Memoirs, Social groups, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Social groups, communities and identities, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs