Women We Buried, Women We Burned:
a memoir
Overview
A riveting memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness from the author of the groundbreaking, award-winning No Visible Bruises.
Rachel Louise Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and home at age 16. Living out of her car and relying on strangers, Rachel managed to talk her way into college and eventually travelled the globe as a journalist. Survival became her reporter’s beat, and in places like India, Niger, and Cambodia, she interviewed those who had been through the unimaginable.
A piercing account of Snyder’s journey from teenage runaway to reporter on the global epidemic of domestic violence, Women We Buried, Women We Burned is a necessary story of family struggle, female survival, and the transformative power of resilience.
Details
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- Pub date
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- Paperback
- 234mm x 153mm
- 272 pages
- 9781922585363
- AUD$35.00
- 1 August 2023
- UK & Commonwealth (ex. Can)
- Don Congdon Associates
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Praise
‘Inspirational … Snyder observes the world with both an unsparing eye and a generous spirit … Instead of getting trapped in the familiar impasse of either/or, Snyder thinks in terms of ands. This expansiveness is of a piece with her writing on domestic violence … Snyder’s memoir shows how one might — must — live amid multiple truths.’
‘A bold and searing memoir about family and violence, illness and independence, pain and fear and beauty. With wry humour and enormous humanity, Rachel Louise Snyder shows us how to summon the courage to imagine in a cruel and dangerous world. A beautiful book.’
About the Author
Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and No Visible Bruises, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award, the Hillman Prize, and the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, LA Times Book Prize, and Kirkus Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and elsewhere. Snyder is a Professor of Creative Writing and Journalism at American University and a 2020–2021 Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Washington, DC.
