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Under My Bed and Other Essays

By Jody Keisner

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Under My Bed and Other Essays

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Jody Keisner was raised in rural Nebraska towns by a volatile father and kind but passive mother. As a young adult living alone for the first time, she began a nighttime ritual of checking under her bed each night, not sure who she was afraid of finding. An intruder? A monster? Her father? Keisner’s fears mature as she becomes a wife and mother, and the boogeyman under the bed shape-shifts, though its shapes are no less frightening-a young aunt’s drowning, the “chest chomp” in the classic horror movie The Thing, a diagnosis of a chronic autoimmune disease, the murder of a young college student, an eccentric grandmother’s belief in reincarnation and her dying advice: “Don’t be afraid.” In 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. In essays both literary and experimental, Keisner illustrates the tension between the illusion of safety, our desire for control, and our struggle to keep the things we fear from reaching out and pulling us under.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2022-09-01
Publication Date:
2022-09-01
Publisher:
Nebraska
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1496230477
ISBN13:
9781496230478
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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Weight:
358 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm

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