The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home: Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Autor S. L. Wisenbergen Paperback – 31 mar 2023
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781625347350
ISBN-10: 1625347359
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
Seria Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction
ISBN-10: 1625347359
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
Seria Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
"Wisenberg is an affecting guide through the nuances, joys, and complications of contemporary Jewish womanhood; The Wandering Womb both celebrates those identities and mourns the past pains that they reflect."—Foreword Reviews
"Wisenberg continues her frank and provocative inquiries into perceptions of the female body . . . Drawing on her journalist’s skills and literary prowess, she applies her audacious incisiveness and wit to her family’s stories as Jews who fled pogrom-ravaged Russia and settled in Houston and Selma."—Booklist
"Wisenberg's direct tone and wide-ranging curiosity make this collection one to recommend, especially to those with an interest in the ways that history and memory intertwine."—Shelf Awareness
"A reader doesn’t have to be a Jewish feminist of a certain age to find something that resonates in S.L. Wisenberg’s compelling collection . . . These pieces are far more than personal essays. Wisenberg weaves her personal experience growing up in Houston, Texas as the grandchild of Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants with reflections on her own experience as a woman in the world. She connects her observations to literature and history, writing a book that hums with both the past and contemporary life."—Southern Review of Books
“Each essay is a lens through which we are invited to view in Joycean detail the author’s deeply personal present, yet at the same time to ponder and to rethink larger worlds of history and cultures. It’s a collection that often is wry but never cynical, acutely learned and always alert to humor and wonder.”—David Toomey, author of Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
"Sometimes subtle, sometimes fierce, these brilliant essays express what it's like to be a Jewish woman today, and what it's like to be an embodied human being."—Paula Kamen, author of Finding Iris Chang
“Wisenberg’s years as a journalist show in the precision of her writing, as she leads us through both the distant and proximate past, from Civil-War reenactments to the private world of the mikvah. In The Wandering Womb, history breathes into our lungs and speaks through every word we say.”—Riva Lehrer, author of Golem Girl: A Memoir
“A sharp, deeply questioning mind and a wayward heart inform these delicious essays. They are wry, humorous, melancholy, and universally relatable, filled with the shock of recognition.”—Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait Inside My Head: Essays
“[A]ll the essays are all well written and consistently interesting.”—Rabbi Rachel Esserman, The Reporter
"Wisenberg continues her frank and provocative inquiries into perceptions of the female body . . . Drawing on her journalist’s skills and literary prowess, she applies her audacious incisiveness and wit to her family’s stories as Jews who fled pogrom-ravaged Russia and settled in Houston and Selma."—Booklist
"Wisenberg's direct tone and wide-ranging curiosity make this collection one to recommend, especially to those with an interest in the ways that history and memory intertwine."—Shelf Awareness
"A reader doesn’t have to be a Jewish feminist of a certain age to find something that resonates in S.L. Wisenberg’s compelling collection . . . These pieces are far more than personal essays. Wisenberg weaves her personal experience growing up in Houston, Texas as the grandchild of Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants with reflections on her own experience as a woman in the world. She connects her observations to literature and history, writing a book that hums with both the past and contemporary life."—Southern Review of Books
“Each essay is a lens through which we are invited to view in Joycean detail the author’s deeply personal present, yet at the same time to ponder and to rethink larger worlds of history and cultures. It’s a collection that often is wry but never cynical, acutely learned and always alert to humor and wonder.”—David Toomey, author of Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
"Sometimes subtle, sometimes fierce, these brilliant essays express what it's like to be a Jewish woman today, and what it's like to be an embodied human being."—Paula Kamen, author of Finding Iris Chang
“Wisenberg’s years as a journalist show in the precision of her writing, as she leads us through both the distant and proximate past, from Civil-War reenactments to the private world of the mikvah. In The Wandering Womb, history breathes into our lungs and speaks through every word we say.”—Riva Lehrer, author of Golem Girl: A Memoir
“A sharp, deeply questioning mind and a wayward heart inform these delicious essays. They are wry, humorous, melancholy, and universally relatable, filled with the shock of recognition.”—Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait Inside My Head: Essays
“[A]ll the essays are all well written and consistently interesting.”—Rabbi Rachel Esserman, The Reporter