{"product_id":"a-silent-treatment-isbn-9781963108453","title":"A Silent Treatment","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Unspeakably compelling.\"—Ed Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Silent Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e confronts both the complexity of family and the quandary of capturing a family’s shapeshifting and perplexing love, their truthful and devoted love, in the amber of memoir.” —Megha Majumdar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe did it to my dad, though. They used the silent treatment on each other, she explained, because they didn't want to say something they'd regret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does she want to say now that she'd regret?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeannie Vanasco’s mother starts using the silent treatment not long after moving into the renovated apartment within Jeannie’s home. The silences begin at any perceived slight. Her shortest period of silence lasts two weeks. Her longest, six months. As Vanasco guides us through her mother’s childhood, their shared past, and the devastating silence of their present, she paints a layered, complicated portrait of a mother and daughter looking, failing, and—in big and small ways—succeeding to understand each other. In the margins of her research, at her kitchen table with her partner, in phone calls to friends, and in delightful hey google queries, Vanasco explores the loneliness and isolation of silence as punishment, both in her own life and beyond it, and confronts her greatest fear: that her mother will never speak to her again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThings We Didn’t Talk About When I was a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeannie Vanasco’s \u003ci\u003eA Silent Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e is a searingly honest and lasting testament to the power of all things left unsaid.\"Vanasco’s third memoir, focusing on her relationship with her mother, is her most potent yet…. Vanasco captures the hurtful confusion of the silent treatment so clearly…. A beautiful gift to all who have struggled to care for a loved one in the way they needed.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A captivating account of the how painful (and powerful) withholding communication can be to a family.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLargehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, A Favorite Nonfiction Collection of 2025 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vanasco is without question one of the most versatile and inventive memoirists working today, and her latest tells a powerful story of the gulfs that separate people and the love that bridges them.\"—\u003cb\u003eWBEZ Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Enthralling…. uncommonly revealing, with each new anecdote successfully capturing the admiration and anxiety that can underpin parent-child bonds.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The author’s prose succeeds in animating the emptiness through a series of deft artistic choices that immerse the reader in her lived experience.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the Seawall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spirited in form and pensive with its subject, \u003ci\u003eA Silent Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e confronts both the complexity of family and the quandary of capturing a family's shapeshifting and perplexing love, their truthful and devoted love, in the amber of memoir.\" —\u003cb\u003eMegha Majumdar, author of \u003ci\u003eA Burning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I look to Jeannie Vanasco to learn where memoir can go next, what psychic spaces it has yet to broach. In \u003ci\u003eA Silent Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e, Vanasco's response to her mom's silence unearths rage, loyalty, bottomless need, and probes the bounds of reality itself. It's impossible to read without questioning one's own primary relationships: How can we be enough to each other? How should we relate to those who love and harm us most deeply? What do we owe our parents and ourselves? Provocative, gripping, and dancing on the edge of madness, \u003ci\u003eA Silent Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e is a transformative thriller. I couldn't put it down, and it still hasn't let go of me.\" \u003cb\u003e—Jenn Shapland, author of \u003ci\u003eThin Skin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With each new book Jeannie Vanasco completely reimagines what life writing can be. I am in awe of what she has done in \u003ci\u003eA Silent Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e, which is such a nuanced and open-hearted exploration of how we tell our mothers' stories, and what it's like to be a daughter of complicated women. This is a book charged with the authority of love, a tribute without romanticization, and an indelible portrait of what can emerge from the terrifying blank space of silence.\" —\u003cb\u003eMadeleine Watts, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Inland Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jeannie Vanasco's \u003ci\u003eA Silent Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e deftly explores the targeted omission of speech with both insight and compassion. In bursts of poignant, staccato prose, Vanasco lyrically traces the particular and cumulative harm of withholding. \u003ci\u003eA Silent Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e is a ground-breaking, complex, and moving contribution to the genre, demonstrating her unique ability to write about and through the moral complexity of our deepest intimacies.\" —\u003cb\u003eCyrus Dunham, author of \u003ci\u003eA Year Without a Name\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eA Silent Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e, Vanasco writes from within her mother’s punitive silence, an ever-present, pressurized force that radiates through the floorboards from her apartment below. Vanasco’s precise language chisels into the quiet white space of each page, conveying her urgent need to communicate while avoiding harm. In this way, the two women are mirrors to each other, caught in that age-old question: how best to love those closest to us. This is a book I’ll turn to again and again, and I’m grateful Vanasco has written it.\" —\u003cb\u003eSarah Perry, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Eclipse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Articulating the pain of a removal, something that is not there, is massively challenging, and yet Jeannie Vanasco has done it—filled the scarcity of silence with an abundance of thrilling, exacting prose. A Silent Treatment is a gift for those of us who’ve been punished by the particular cruelty of silence and an opportunity for those who use this method of punishment to understand their frailty. A salve and a method of healing, this memoir will help countless people.\"—\u003cb\u003eMarie-Helene Bertino, author of \u003ci\u003eBeautyland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\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. 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