{"product_id":"things-we-didnt-talk-about-when-i-was-a-girl-isbn-9781951142032","title":"Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was A Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice and Best Book of the Year at \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, Amazon, \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, and Electric Literature \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides—after fourteen years of silence—to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeannie details her friendship with Mark before and after the assault, asking the brave and urgent question: Is it possible for a good person to commit a terrible act? Jeannie interviews Mark, exploring how rape has impacted his life as well as her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnflinching and courageous, \u003ci\u003eThings We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is part memoir, part true crime record, and part testament to the strength of female friendships—a recounting and reckoning that will inspire us to ask harder questions, push towards deeper understanding, and continue a necessary and long overdue conversation.Bold, unsettling, and timely. . . . A reckoning with injustice.—Laurie Halse Anderson, TIME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGorgeous, harrowing, heartbreaking.—Carmen Maria Machado, Bustle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout violence and forgiveness, about friendship and the unwanted title of victim, about digging deeper and deeper to seek answers.—The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cuttingly funny meta-meditation on her own pain in the context of #MeToo.—O, The Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA remarkably nuanced account of the complicated and confusing emotions that surface when your rapist is someone you knew and trusted.—The Cut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout how important it is to speak about these oft-silenced experiences that cause so many to feel ashamed, scared, and alone.—NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stunning work of meta nonfiction. . . . Vanasco’s narrative pushes far past the flattened media narrative of Me Too and asks uncomfortable questions about how to talk about rape culture, toxic masculinity and gender, justice, and resilience.—Shondaland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the most important book of the season.—Esquire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUtterly brilliant.—Book Riot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThought-provoking, unmooring, and haunting.—NYLON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStriking. . . . Creates a language for something we don’t talk about.—The Paris Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeartfelt, painful, and essential.—Shelf Awareness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gripping read and true fodder for the necessary reckoning with toxic masculinity.—BuzzFeed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVanasco immediately makes you wonder how we can take so much about sexual assault for granted.—The Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntrepid. . . . A work that has the potential to change the way we think and talk about rape and the people who commit it.—Bitch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSets the canon of #MeToo-era creative nonfiction on fire. . . . Inimitable.—Booklist, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinarily brave work of self- and cultural reflection.—Kirkus, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExactly the book we need right now. . . . I wish everyone in this country would read it.—Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStunning.—Angela Pelster, author of Limber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA literary feminist miracle.—Sophia Shalmiyev, author of Mother Winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant.—Megan Stielstra, author of The Wrong Way to Save Your Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVanasco is a formidable talent.—Daniel Gumbiner, author of The Boatbuilder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn essential, unforgettable work.—Erik Anderson, author of Flutter Point\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is so much power in these pages.—Elissa Washuta, author of My Body is a Book of Rules\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterrogates the terms of betrayal and the limits of redemption.—Tim Taranto, author of Ars Botanica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rigorous and nuanced investigation.—Lisa Locascio, author of Open Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWickedly clever and powerful.—Krystal A. Sital, author of Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCuts through the silence of deep betrayal.—Amy Jo Burns, author of Shiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstonishingly fierce.—Emily Geminder, author of Dead Girls and Other Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the common experience of rape with uncommon nuance and intense tenderness.—YZ Chin, author of Though I Get Home\u003cb\u003eJeannie Vanasco\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the memoirs \u003ci\u003eThings We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233775825125,"sku":"NP9781951142032","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781951142032.jpg?v=1767742442","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/things-we-didnt-talk-about-when-i-was-a-girl-isbn-9781951142032","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}