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Under My Bed and Other Essays
by : Jody Keisner
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Book Synopsis : Jody Keisner was raised in rural Nebraska towns by a volatile father and kind but passive mother. As a young adult living alone for the first time, she began a nighttime ritual of checking under her bed each night, not sure who she was afraid of finding. An intruder? A monster? Her father? Keisner?s fears mature as she becomes a wife and mother, and the boogeyman under the bed shape-shifts,?though its shapes are no less frightening?a young aunt?s drowning, the ?chest chomp? in the classic horror movie The Thing, a diagnosis of a chronic autoimmune disease, the murder of a young college student, an eccentric grandmother?s belief in reincarnation and her dying advice: ?Don?t be afraid.? In Under My Bed and Other Essays, Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women, starting with the working-class midwestern family she was adopted into and ending with her own experience of mothering daughters. In essays both literary and experimental, Keisner