"The Garden Frightens Me": Trauma, Recovery, and the Environmental Uncanny in Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now

Abstract

Abstract:Meg Rosoff's 2004 novel, How I Live Now, demands a different theorization of the entanglement of the human and the nonhuman, of the female adolescent body and landscape, of text and intertext. Specifically, a reading able to engage questions of trauma, recovery and the environmental uncanny.