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She's Under Here

A Love Story, A Horror Story, A Reckoning

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By Karen Palmer

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$28.00

Price

$37.00 CAD

Format

Hardcover

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Hardcover $28.00 $37.00 CAD

  • "With SHE'S UNDER HERE, Karen Palmer exposes what it is to make difficult and complicated choices as a woman. Palmer, who flees a violent ex with her children, reinventing herself out of constant fear and necessity, masterfully illustrates that no woman's life is ever only One Thing. Palmer ruthlessly examines the lines between captivity and freedom. Heart-pounding, illuminating, and ominously timeless."

     
    Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down

On Sale
Sep 16, 2025
Page Count
256 pages
Publisher
Algonquin Books
ISBN-13
9781643757544

Karen Palmer

About the Author

Karen Palmer is a Pushcart Prize winner and has received grants from the NEA and Colorado Council on the Arts. She’s Under Here grew out of her award-winning essay “The Reader Is the Protagonist,” first published in Virginia Quarterly Review and selected by Leslie Jamison for inclusion in Best American Essays 2017. More recently her short story “Birds of Paradise”  won the 2022 Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Kenyon ReviewArts & Letters, and Kalliope, among others. She lives in Los Angeles. 

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