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Telling : a Memoir of Rape and Recovery by Weaver Francisco, Patricia is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Patricia Francisco has done that rare thing; write with honesty about the act of evil and about her slow trudge to health in its aftermath. Her story is important for every woman to hear and every man to know. This book is impressive and very moving." Louise Erdrich In this intimate memoir, Patricia Weaver Francisco tells of her fifteen-year journey to recognize and overcome the effects of rape. Francisco explores key aspects of a women's life in the aftermath of rapepassion, marriage, solitude, childbirth, motherhood. She invites the reader into her life and into the questions raised by a crime with no obvious solutions or easy answers. We see the dimensions of a human struggle often kept hidden from view. While there are millions of rape survivors in the United States, rape is still too often left out of our personal and cultural conversations. In Telling , Francisco has found a language for the secret grief carried by people who have survived rape. Describing her fear during and after the rape in a visceral style, Francisco details her transformation of trauma into strength. This transformation begins by learning to talk about rape, to understand the resistance she encounters

Who reads Telling : a Memoir of Rape and Recovery?

Author

Weaver Francisco, Patricia

Publisher

Cliff Street Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060930769

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, Psychology

Rating

4.12 / 5 (155 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14