- Title: The Underground Woman
- Author: Regina Krummel
- Publisher: Fragile Twilight Press
- Form: Paperback
- Illustrated: ---
- Number of Pages: 104
- ISBN: 1-57981-040-3
- Price: $14.95 + $1.50 (Shipping) = $16.45
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Review:
Regina Krummel’s The Underground Woman is as much memoir as fiction, more rhetorical than dramatic, equal parts comic and tragic-pathetic. Jill, the narrator-protagonist, is a sixtyish Jewish woman: passionate, intellectual, wife and mother, who suffers unabashedly for her own complex needs and for the out-of-joint world she inhabits. Like Dostoyevsky’s prototype, Krummel’s Underground Woman is, finally, an unapologetic rant on behalf of the crestfallen; it succeeds admirably.
‑Harold Jaffe, author of many fictions including Eros Anti-Eros and False Positive. He is Editor, Fictional International
The Underground Woman is about survival, the survival of a woman...surviving the lies that people tell themselves...the lies that they tell others who know they are lies and pretend not to know...the “underground woman” is not a heroine, or even a hero. But she is subversive–prepared to go to any lengths, to make any sacrifice, to preserve the truth of a woman’s self.
‑Edward Tejirian, author, Male to Male: Sexual Feeling Across the Boundaries of Identity
Regina Krummel’s The Underground Woman—Jill struck me from the opening pages as a book about me, about my life, about my struggles, my search for the certainty that life has meaning. I read with that excitement that comes of discovering what I already know. Jill’s is a stream of consciousness story of a day in her life and her relentless insistence that there be resolution to the pain, that there be answers to the hard questions she dares to confront. Her fears are made real to me, become my own fears through the power of the images that are piled up and piled up sentence after sentence. It pulled me along to a richer understanding of the need for asking the deeper questions.
‑Lee C. Downing, artist illustrator, and poet.
“The greatest secret of all is that I have no secret,” writes Regina Krummel in her “memoir” about an underground woman. This is an honest, courageous and unsettling attempt on the part of a professional woman to confront her own identity in a society that has not yet come to terms with the roles and status of women. The author presents her “case” with integrity and passion as she elaborates upon specific episodes which define her imagery as an “underground woman.” There is anger; there is fear. The unrest that lives in her heart is not concealed. The act of writing such a book gives her an opportunity to reflect, to examine her life through the episodes that burden her. “I scream,” a voice in the wilderness. She is at war with those forces that cause her to feel trapped.
‑Deborah Elkins, Professor Emerita
Regina Krummel writes from her gut. She examines “woman” in her innumerable and complicated roles. She picks, dissects and reveals her countless facets. “Woman” is contradictory, loving, angry, confused, keenly aware of corruption and cruelty, sensitive to beauty and talent. She’s nurturing and dismissive, brave, frightened, needy, and ultimately alone. The Underground Woman is a compelling and beautiful book.
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