Trauma Plot : A Life

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 survivalA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Vulture, Bustle, LitHub, The A.V. Club, and Autostraddle"An innovative, rigorous, genre-bending, and ultimately life-affirming account of what it takes to survive."—Vulture"Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels."—Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby and Stag DanceIn 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 mar