{"product_id":"9780961469665","title":"The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten before the #MeToo Movement burst into American consciousness, this memoir tracks the consequences of sexual harassment, sexual assault and abuse over the lifetime of a successful American journalist and author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e \"invents its own genre,\" wrote Sherry Turkle. \"The author suspects sexual abuse in her childhood and investigates with the toolkits of an historian and ethnographer.\" The result is a memoir that is what Eva Hoffman calls, \"a true labor of memory, in which the story of the body is inseparable from the narrative of the self.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis memoir is the third of a non-fiction trilogy, following Epstein's \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors\u003c\/i\u003e (Putnam, 1979) and \u003ci\u003eWhere She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History\u003c\/i\u003e (Little, Brown, 1997), both widely translated. As Gloria Steinem wrote \"In Epstein's hands, truth becomes not only stranger than fiction but more magnetic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book invents its own genre. Eminent journalist Helen Epstein suspects sexual abuse in her childhood and investigates with the full arsenal of what is available to her as an adult: the literature on trauma and false memory; the tools of psychoanalysis as well as a sophisticated understanding of its limitations; the toolkits of an historian and ethnographer. And access to a key witness... That rare story in which everyone becomes more human and multi-dimensional as it unfolds.\" \u003cb\u003eSherry Turkle\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this poignant, vividly written and fearlessly frank memoir, Helen Epstein probes, with sensitivity and insight, the multi-layered ambiguities of love, intimate relationships, and post-Holocaust American lives. More than a chronicle of events, this is a true labor of memory, in which the story of the body is inseparable from the narrative of the self.\" \u003cb\u003eEva Hoffman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In midlife, well settled in marriage and motherhood, Epstein is impelled to revisit the legacy of her childhood. As she risks both her own sanity and the relationships she holds most dear, Epstein illustrates the complex moral and psychological effects of trauma, and the gritty process of recovery.\" \u003cb\u003eJudith Herman, M.D.\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTrauma and Recovery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Helen Epstein's career has been devoted to tracking how political and cultural history penetrates family life over generations. Her books have been models of investigation. This new memoir plants an even deeper stake into the search through personal trauma... This is heroic writing, and belongs in the canon of accounts of mothers and daughters, of wounds lost in the depth of childhood, and the valiant determination of a woman to live in uncertainty with grace.\" \u003cb\u003ePatricia Hampl\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eI Could Tell You Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this riveting book, Helen Epstein probes the dark corners of her childhood with sensitivity and remarkable candor. This memoir reads like a detective story and asks questions that affect us all: how does our sexual nature get formed or deformed, and how can it change? Unflinching writing.\" \u003cb\u003eAnne Karpf\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe War After: Living with the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Courageously peeling back layers of her own psyche, Helen Epstein describes how one is able to withstand and survive trauma, and perhaps even more difficult to heal from it. While tracing her own trajectory, Epstein offers a riveting cultural history of America in the late twentieth century.\" \u003cb\u003eHelen Fremont\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Long Silence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Helen Epstein has crafted an unclassifiable masterwork of nonfiction...\" - \u003cb\u003eDavid Hajdu\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePositively 4th Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Candid and penetrating... Epstein meticulously unravels the fabric of her past... A relentlessly probing memoir of a search for self-knowledge.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plunkett Lake Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020514902256,"sku":"9780961469665","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780961469665_p0.jpg?v=1763882942","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780961469665","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}