No Visible Bruises: What We Dont Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Product Description Winner Of The Hillman Prize For Book Journalism, The Helen Bernstein Book Award, And The Lukas Work-In-Progress Award * A New York Times Top 10 Books Of The Year * National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist * Aba Silver Gavel Award Finalist * Kirkus Prize Finalistnamed One Of The Best Books Of 2019 By: Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Bookpage, Bookriot, Economist, New York Times Staff CriticsA Seminal And Breathtaking Account Of Why Home Is The Most Dangerous Place To Be A Woman . . . A Tour De Force. Eve EnslerTerrifying, Courageous Reportage From Our Internal War Zone. Andrew SolomonExtraordinary. New York Times ,Editors ChoiceGut-Wrenching, Required Reading. EsquireCompulsively Readable . . . It Will Save Lives. Washington PostEssential, Devastating Reading. Cheryl Strayed, New York Times Book Reviewan Award-Winning JournalistS Intimate Investigation Of The True Scope Of Domestic Violence, Revealing How The Roots Of AmericaS Most Pressing Social Crises Are Buried In Abuse That Happens Behind Closed Doors.We Call It Domestic Violence. We Call It Private Violence. Sometimes We Call It Intimate Terrorism. But Whatever We Call It, We Generally Do Not Believe It Has Anything At All To Do With Us, Despite The World Health Organization Deeming It A Global Epidemic. In America, Domestic Violence Accounts For 15 Percent Of All Violent Crime, And Yet It Remains Locked In Silence, Even As Its Tendrils Reach Unseen Into So Many Of Our Most Pressing National Issues, From Our Economy To Our Education System, From Mass Shootings To Mass Incarceration To #Metoo. We Still Have Not Taken The True Measure Of This Problem.In No Visible Bruises, Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder Gives Context For What We DonT Know WeRe Seeing. She Frames This Urgent And Immersive Account Of The Scale Of Domestic Violence In Our Country Around Key Stories That Explode The Common MythsThat If Things Were Bad Enough, Victims Would Just Leave; That A Violent Person Cannot Become Nonviolent; That Shelter Is An Adequate Response; And Most Insidiously That Violence Inside The Home Is A Private Matter, Sealed From The Public Sphere And Disconnected From Other Forms Of Violence. Through The Stories Of Victims, Perpetrators, Law Enforcement, And Reform Movements From Across The Country, Snyder Explores The Real Roots Of Private Violence, Its Far-Reaching Consequences For Society, And What It Will Take To Truly Address It. Review Extraordinary . . . [No Visible Bruises] Takes Apart The Myths That Surround Domestic Violence. . . In Its Scope And Seriousness--Its Palpable Desire To Spur Change--This Book Invites Reflection Not Only About Violence But About Writing Itself . . . [Snyder] Brings All Of FictionS Techniques To This New Book--Canny Pacing, An Eye For The Animating Detail And Bursts Of Quick, Confident Characterization. There Is A Fullness And Density To Every One Of Her Subjects . . . She Glides From History To The Present Day, From Scene To Analysis, With A Relaxed Virtuosity That Filled Me With Admiration. This Is A Writer Using Every Tool At Her Disposal To Make This Story Come Alive, To Make It Matter. - Parul Sehgal, New York Times, Editors Choice[Snyder] Has Written A Book About Everything: About Men Who Beat And Kill Their Wives Or Girlfriends; About People Who Work To Predict Murder, And Those Who Try To Heal The Abusers; And Also, Deeply, About Gender, Poverty, Depression, Despair, Privilege, Law Enforcement, Incarceration, Justice, Mental Health, And Politics . . . It Takes A Writer Of Uncommon Talent And Confidence To Pull This Off. SnyderS Stories Are About People, Every Single One Of Whom Is Drawn Empathically. Her Investigation Is Intellectual And Unsparingly Complex. - Masha Gessen, New YorkerS Page-Turner BlogCompulsively Readable . . . In A Writing Style ThatS As Gripping As Good Fiction, As Intimate