Description
"From the acclaimed author of Goodbye, Sweet Girl, a memoir in essays focusing on the longer-lasting effects of trauma, challenging a culture in which violence against women is normalized, and illuminating the nonlinear, complex nature of recovery. Kelly Sundberg's abusive marriage nearly broke her, and building the courage to leave it was only the beginning of her story. Deeply courageous, The Answer Is in the Wound explores her journey toward healing, tracing the complexities of being a single parent, her newfound relationship with crystals and tattooing, and her decision to become "the problem" at the institutions she works for. From erasure poetry she crafts from emails and a court-mandated apology letter from her ex-husband, to engaging with and expanding upon the research of some of the most prominent voices in fifty years of trauma psychiatry and trauma psychology-from Judith Herman and Peter A. Levine to Bessel van der Kolk-The Answer Is in the Wound is a profound meditation on trauma and its lasting effects. With the formal innovation and radical vulnerability of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House and the cerebral precision of Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams, Sundberg's breathtaking collection offers a redemptive arc for trauma survivors, providing vital insight into the little-known recovery process and what makes healing possible"--
