What Hurts Going Down

A searing exploration of girlhood in the pre- and post- #MeToo eras from the acclaimed novelist.

    Nancy Lee's debut collection of poems bring us closer and closer to the hard details of "femininity." They explore how socially ingrained violence and sexual power dynamics distort girlhood, womanhood, and friendship. Strong, startling, and visceral, the poems in What Hurts Going Down hover in the uneasy territory of pre- and post- #MeToo and scrutinize the changing wagers of being female.