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Trauma Plot: A Life

Trauma Plot: A Life

Hood, Jamie

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismCriminology

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 059368608X
ISBN13: 9780593686089
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.88
Language: English
From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival

A VULTURE NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Piercing . . . . Trauma Plot flips the confessional memoir on its head.--The Cut

An innovative, rigorous, genre-bending, and ultimately life-affirming account of what it takes to survive.--Vulture

In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, how to be a good girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood's bold vulnerability, and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020.

In Trauma Plot, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in good girl's margins--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?

Trauma Plot 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.

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