History Is Embarrassing
Chase, Karen A collection of essays full of startling directness, fearlessness, and surprise. Filled with profound reflections and snapshots from the past, Karen Chase‿s History is Embarrassing weaves together threads from one single life‿a girl suffering from polio, a poet, a Jewish woman, a writer, and a painter. Like Chase, the characters who populate these essays are outsiders‿undercover cops, a gay couple in 1500s India, bear poachers, psychiatric p...