The Blue Hill Library and Finding Our Voices are cosponsoring a virtual book discussion with the author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, Rachel Louise Snyder, on Tuesday, September 16 at 6PM. Patrons can join in one of three ways: by coming to the library in-person to join the Zoom discussion; or by signing up for the book club at https://bookclubs.com/finding-our-voices/join/ to join from another location. 

Among the topics we will discuss with the author are emotional abuse, the link between mass shootings and domestic violence, and DV-busting programs across the country that Maine can learn from and adopt.

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 at work 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.

“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

The Finding Our Voices book club is one more way that the grassroots and statewide nonprofit is breaking the silence of domestic abuse. The CEO/Founder Patrisha McLean also hosts the "Let's Talk About It" radio show that is conversations with survivors on WERU-FM, second Friday of the month. For more information about the group behind July's "Into the Light!" Yellow Fundraising Festival that brightened the Blue Hill Peninsula visit https://findingourvoices.net