Under My Bed and Other Essays
Jody Keisner
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Under My Bed and Other Essays
Jody Keisner
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Gorgeous, stirring, and deeply probing exploration of what it means to be human in a world that gives us plenty of reasons to feel unsafe—particularly if we are female.
Fresh and intriguing.
Each essay in Under My Bed is exquisitely structured and beautifully written, the personal substantiated by the factual, and every seeming diversion tying into the overarching theme. Although the author writes perceptively about the predicament of living while female, there were some issues that could have been more fully explored, such as a reflection on the fact that the threat she so feared came from within her own body instead of from the outside, and a much deeper contemplation of how being adopted may have contributed to her anxieties..
Riveting.