History Is EmbarrassingA collection of essays full of startling directness, fearlessness, and surprise. Filled with profound reflections and snapshots from the past, Karen Chase's History Is Embarrassing weaves together threads from one single lifea girl suffering from polio, a poet, a Jewish woman, a writer, and a painter. Like Chase, the characters who populate these essays are outsidersundercover cops, a gay couple in 1500s India, bear poachers, psychiatric patients, and