No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY: Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, BookRiot, Economist, New York Times Staff Critics

â€œA seminal and breathtaking account of why home is the most dangerous place to be a woman . . . A tour de force.â€ -Eve Ensler

"Terrifying, courageous reportage from our internal war zone." -Andrew Solomon

"Extraordinary." -New York Times ,â€œEditors' Choiceâ€

â€œGut-wrenching, required reading.â€ -Esquire

"Compulsively readable . . . It will save lives." -Washington Post

An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's 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 â€œglobal epidemic.â€ 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 don't know we're seeing. She frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths-that 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Bloomsbury Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-05-07
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Bloomsbury Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-05-07
Format	Kindle eBook

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

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