Everyone is invited to join the Blue Hill Public Library and Finding Our Voices for a special virtual book club addressing domestic violence on Tuesday, September 16 at 6 p.m. Participants can join Author Rachel Louise Snyder to discuss her book “No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us,” along with topics covering emotional abuse, the link between mass shootings and domestic violence, and DV-busting programs across the country. Join us either in-person at the library via a Zoom live-stream or from another location by registering at https://bookclubs.com/finding-our-voices/join. 

“No Visible Bruises” is a seminal and breathtaking account of why home is the most dangerous place to be a woman. Through brilliant insights and myth-busting research, compelling storytelling, and a passionate focus on truth-telling, Rachel Louise Snyder places domestic violence exactly where it should be, smack in the center of everything. A tour de force.” —V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of the “Vagina Monologues.”

Rachel Louise Snyder is an investigative journalist and contributing writer for The New York Times opinion section.  Her other books are “Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade” and the novel “What We’ve Lost is Nothing.” She is currently working on a reported narrative examination of gender discrimination and criminalized survivors in the judicial system. Snyder will be joining us from Washington, DC, where she is a distinguished professor in the creative writing program at American University.

Finding Our Voices is a nonprofit organization that aims to prevent domestic violence in Maine founded by Patrisha McLean. The Finding Our Voices book club is one of the many ways that the organization is breaking the silence around domestic abuse. To learn more about Finding Our Voices visit www.findingourvoices.net. Patrisha McLean, also hosts the radio show "Let's Talk About It,” conversations with domestic violence survivors on WERU every second Friday of the month.

This program is free and open to all. Copies of the book will be available at the library. For more information contact Assistant Director Kayleigh Thomas at kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net or 374-5515.