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"Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels. Trauma Plot is a glass case of such wonders."—Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, BabyIn 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.Trauma Plot: A Life -- Jamie Hood, Hardcover – BookandMortar The Rumpus praised Hood's "bold vulnerability," and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. In Trauma Plot, Hood draws on disparate literary . Pantheon - Facebook ” —The Rumpus on TRAUMA PLOT by Jamie Hood https://therumpus.net/2025/02/18/trauma-plot-a- life/. Ancillary Review of Books. 1. . . Recent . The Trauma Plot Has Lost Faith in Itself - RealClearBooks book the facts were usually about animals or science) with short, descriptive passages about the life of the unnamed writer-protagonist—a . Trauma Plot: A Life (Hardcover) | The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza 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 . Jamie Hood's New Book Gives Vivid New Life to the Pain of Sexual . In her new book Trauma Plot: A Life, writer Jamie Hood references Sehgal's essay, A Little Life, coming to terms with yourself in the wake of unimaginable . Trauma Plot: A Life | Charter Books 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 .