She's Under Here: A Memoir by Palmer, Karen
She's Under Here: A Memoir by Palmer, Karen

She's Under Here: A Memoir

"Heart-pounding, illuminating, and ominously timeless" (Gina Frangello), this honest and poignant memoir reflects on a woman's escape...
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Author: Karen Palmer
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She's Under Here: A Memoir by Palmer, Karen

She's Under Here: A Memoir

$42.79
She's Under Here: A Memoir by Palmer, Karen

She's Under Here: A Memoir

$42.79
Author: Karen Palmer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"Heart-pounding, illuminating, and ominously timeless" (Gina Frangello), this honest and poignant memoir reflects on a woman's escape from a violent marriage and what it cost to protect her and her family's safety.

"Once upon a time, I disappeared." So begins Karen Palmer's harrowing and redemptive memoir, She's Under Here.

In 1989, shortly after her second marriage, Palmer and her new husband quit their jobs without notice. They pulled her two young daughters out of school and buckled them into the rear seat of a used car purchased with cash. The trunk was packed with clothing and toys, pillows and blankets, four place settings, one pot, one pan, and a sack that contained every penny they had. Living with the fear of Palmer's dangerous ex-husband had become untenable: This was DIY witness protection.

In this searingly honest and heartwrenching account, Palmer examines why she ended up trapped, how she escaped, and the ongoing perils of life constructed around a false identity. She ruthlessly explores the lines between desire and fear, victim and perpetrator, captivity and freedom, and exposes myriad aspects of what it means to make difficult choices as a woman, when none of the options are good. She's Under Here is a haunting meditation on themes of disappearance, betrayal, and private violence, and it is utterly unforgettable.


Author: Karen Palmer
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.85w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9781643757544


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2025

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 Review, Arts & Letters, and Kalliope, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.
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