The Wandering Womb - S. L. Wisenberg

The Wandering Womb

Essays in Search of Home

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2023
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-62534-735-0 (ISBN)
24,85 inkl. MwSt
With wit, verve, blood, scars, and a solid dose of self-deprecation, S.L. Wisenberg wanders across the expanse of continents and combs through history books and family records in her search for home and meaning.
Even as a fourth-generation Jewish Texan, S. L. Wisenberg has always felt the ghost of Europe dogging her steps, making her feel uneasy in her body and in the world. At age six, she’s sure that she hears Nazis at her bedroom window and knows that after they take her away, she’ll die without her asthma meds. In her late twenties, she infiltrates sorority rush at her alma mater, curious about whether she’ll get a bid now. Later in life, she makes her first and only trip to the mikvah while healing from a breast biopsy (benign this time), prompting an exploration of misogyny, shame, and woman-fear in rabbinical tradition.

With wit, verve, blood, scars, and a solid dose of self-deprecation, Wisenberg wanders across the expanse of continents and combs through history books and family records in her search for home and meaning. Her travels take her from Selma, Alabama, where her Eastern European Jewish ancestors once settled, to Vienna, where she tours Freud’s home and figures out what women really want, and she visits Auschwitz, which—disappointingly—leaves no emotional mark.

S. L. Wisenberg is editor of Another Chicago Magazine and author of the fiction collection, The Sweetheart Is In, and two nonfiction books, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions and The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Holocaust Education Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council, Wisenberg works as a writing coach, editor, and creative writing instructor in Chicago.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Verlagsort Massachusetts
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 126 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga Humor / Satire
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
ISBN-10 1-62534-735-9 / 1625347359
ISBN-13 978-1-62534-735-0 / 9781625347350
Zustand Neuware
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