Is This How We Would Sleep If We Were in Hiding?
The writer was terrified by her dark fantasies of fleeing from Nazis with her Jewish family. But what disturbed her even more was learning that she wasn’t alone in her paranoia.
Jamie Beth Cohen
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Jamie Beth Cohen is a writer, storyteller, and community organizer who works in higher education. Her writing has appeared in TeenVogue.com, The Washington Post/On Parenting, Salon, and Motherwell. Her debut novel, 'Wasted Pretty,' was published in April 2019.
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My Father, His Gun, and Me
It wasn’t her dad's firearm that terrified the author when she was growing up. It was the realization that a weapon could never protect her from the palpable violence.