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Fifteen years ago, Jeannie's relationship with a close friend ended in rape. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, recurring nightmares have returned and to process her conflicted feelings of betrayal she resolves to face her trauma head-on.

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'Cuts through the silence of deep betrayal, gives contour to the aching space between forgiveness and absolution, and offers a living testament to the endless wreckage of sexual assault’ Amy Jo Burns, author of Cinderland


'Explodes rape culture at the level of language, shows us how we are trapped and how we might make ourselves free. This is a brilliant book, an astonishingly fierce inquiry into the places language won't go' Emily Geminder, author of Dead Girls


'Vanasco has written exactly the book we need right now. I wish everyone would read it' Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me


'Brave and compelling... Vanasco muddles through the silt of her thoughts to create a language for something we don’t talk about' Paris Review, staff pick


'Brave and urgent... a searching, brilliant book and Vanasco is a formidable talent. We are lucky to have her' Daniel Gumbiner, author of The Boatbuilder


'Wickedly clever and powerful... a necessary book' Krystal A. Sital

Things We Didnt Talk About When I Was a Girl

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    A Paperback / softback by Jeannie Vanasco

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      Publisher Duckworth Books
      Published 3 October 2019
      ISBN-13 9780715653753
      978-0715653753
      ISBN-10 071565375X
      Also in:
      Autobiography: adventurers and explorers Memoirs True crime

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Fifteen years ago, Jeannie's relationship with a close friend ended in rape. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, recurring nightmares have returned and to process her conflicted feelings of betrayal she resolves to face her trauma head-on.

      Trade Review

      'Cuts through the silence of deep betrayal, gives contour to the aching space between forgiveness and absolution, and offers a living testament to the endless wreckage of sexual assault’ Amy Jo Burns, author of Cinderland


      'Explodes rape culture at the level of language, shows us how we are trapped and how we might make ourselves free. This is a brilliant book, an astonishingly fierce inquiry into the places language won't go' Emily Geminder, author of Dead Girls


      'Vanasco has written exactly the book we need right now. I wish everyone would read it' Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me


      'Brave and compelling... Vanasco muddles through the silt of her thoughts to create a language for something we don’t talk about' Paris Review, staff pick


      'Brave and urgent... a searching, brilliant book and Vanasco is a formidable talent. We are lucky to have her' Daniel Gumbiner, author of The Boatbuilder


      'Wickedly clever and powerful... a necessary book' Krystal A. Sital

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