{"product_id":"book-j6kx","title":"Trauma Plot","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a rising literary star and the author of h\u003ci\u003eow to be a good girl\u003c\/i\u003e comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels. \u003ci\u003eTrauma Plot \u003c\/i\u003eis a glass case of such wonders.\"—Torrey Peters, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDetransition, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, \u003ci\u003ehow to be a good girl\u003c\/i\u003e, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e praised Hood’s “bold vulnerability,” and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e named it a Best Book of 2020. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTrauma Plot\u003c\/i\u003e, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in \u003ci\u003egood girl’s \u003c\/i\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\u003ci\u003eTrauma Plot\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCover image: \u003c\/i\u003ePhilomela \u003ci\u003eby John Gregory. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Archives, Philadelphia\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49644153340208,"sku":"BDj6kx","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/687116-j6kx-Square.jpg?v=1742581319","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-j6kx","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}