{"product_id":"trauma-plot-a-life-by-jamie-hood-1","title":"Trauma Plot: A Life By Jamie Hood","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom a rising literary star and the author of h\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eow to be a good girl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVOGUE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAND\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVULTURE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Piercing . . . .\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTrauma Plot\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eflips the confessional memoir on its head.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e—The Cut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"An innovative, rigorous, genre-bending, and ultimately life-affirming account of what it takes to survive.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e—Vulture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ehow to be a good girl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e praised Hood’s “bold vulnerability,” and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVogue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e named it a Best Book of 2020.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTrauma Plot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003egood girl’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emargins—of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage left behind. With her trademark critical remove, Hood interrogates the archetype of the rape survivor, who must perform penitence long after living through the unthinkable, invoking some of art’s most infamous women to have played the role: Ovid’s Philomela, David Lynch’s Laura Palmer, and Artemisia Gentileschi, who captured Judith’s wrath. In so doing, she asks: What do we as a culture demand of survivors? And what do survivors, in turn, owe a world that has abandoned them?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTrauma Plot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a scalding work of personal and literary criticism. It is a send-up of our culture's pious disdain for “trauma porn,” a dirge for the broken promises of #MeToo, and a paean to finding life after death.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":47505471865052,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":47505471897820,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/6_22c133db-b8fa-4d3b-85b7-e9593f8a1bca.png?v=1769702445","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/trauma-plot-a-life-by-jamie-hood-1","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}