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PublisherCurbside Splendor Publishing

ISBN-101940430747

ISBN-139781940430744

eBay Product ID (ePID)219363828

Product Key Features

Book TitleTelling

Number of Pages300 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicPersonal Memoirs, General, Interpersonal Relations

GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology

AuthorZoe Zolbrod

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"Dusk is now settling around my house and I'm just emerging from the spell of Zoe Zolbrod's transfixing memoir: I sat down, as you will, to read ten pages and ending up devouring the entire thing in one breathless gulp. Though ostensibly a tale of heartbreaking childhood molestation, The Telling is much, much more: A complicated, layered commentary on coming of age in America, on the limits of gender, on what it means to be a young girl, a young woman, a mother, a daughter, at this moment in history. Spiked with Zolbrod's humor and her novelist's eye for detail, this layered, ingeniously constructed story reminded me of so many favorite memoirs of recent years, from Alice Sebold's Lucky to Claire Dederer's Poser, but Zolbrod's spiky, uncompromising style is utterly her own." --Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age "One of the most stunning memoirs I've ever read. In this perfectly-crafted story, Zolbrod exercises her impeccable command of language to explore a dark subject with beauty, humility and fierce grace. This book burns bright on the list of those that will stay with me for years to come." --Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance "The job of the memoirist is to draw our gaze to the things that most scare us, and to hold it. In this way, they show us that it is possible to hold our whole truths. To do this well, they must enact such looking at the most intimate level. Only the most brave and honest writers can withstand this, the ones with a certain fortitude of self. Zoe Zolbrod is one such writer. She withholds nothing in The Telling, invites us into the deep examination of her own most changing experiences and she does so with skill, equanimity, and grace." --Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me "Zoe Zolbrod's memoir about coming to terms with her childhood sexual abuse is evocative, fiercely intelligent, and beautifully constructed. It also manages to be compulsively readable, a rare quality in a book dealing with such difficult subject matter. In telling her story, Zolbrod becomes a time traveler, making elegant leaps from early childhood to her unconventional coming of age to the embattled but deep satisfactions of her own motherhood. The result is a book that ponders the way the past informs the present--and the mysterious manner in which resilience works. The Telling is a necessary memoir in every way. With remarkable restraint and grace, Zolbrod shows what telling the truth costs us, and what essential essence in the teller it sets free." --Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in 23 Poses

SynopsisZolbrod shows great courage as she tries to answer difficult and troubling questions about herself and her family, a powerfully rendered struggle that will strike a chord with abuse survivors and their loved ones. -- Publishers Weekly Evocative, fiercely intelligent, and beautifully constructed. In telling her story, Zolbrod becomes a time traveler, making elegant leaps from early childhood to her unconventional coming of age to the embattled but deep satisfactions of her own motherhood. The Telling is a necessary memoir in every way. --Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in 23 Poses Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn't sure what to expect, or what to say. Through a kaleidoscopic series of experiences--Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia, meets and marries her husband, and gives birth to her children--she traces the development of her sexuality, her relationships with men, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse. Bolstered with research, Zolbrod argues passionately for the empowerment of sexual abuse victims and the courage it takes to talk about it. The Telling is an intimate examination of one woman's reckoning with a past she can't always explain, and a life lived in search for the right words. Zoe Zolbrod 's work has appeared in Salon , the Nervous Breakdown , the Weeklings , and the Rumpus , where she serves as the Sunday Editor. Her debut novel Currency won a 2010 Nobbie Award and received an honorable mention by Friends of American Writers. Zolbrod lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband and children., A kaleidoscopic examination of the influence of one woman's childhood sexual abuse on her identity as a mother and woman., "Zolbrod shows great courage as she tries to answer difficult and troubling questions about herself and her family, a powerfully rendered struggle that will strike a chord with abuse survivors and their loved ones." -- Publishers Weekly "Evocative, fiercely intelligent, and beautifully constructed. In telling her story, Zolbrod becomes a time traveler, making elegant leaps from early childhood to her unconventional coming of age to the embattled but deep satisfactions of her own motherhood. The Telling is a necessary memoir in every way." --Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in 23 Poses Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn't sure what to expect, or what to say. Through a kaleidoscopic series of experiences--Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia, meets and marries her husband, and gives birth to her children--she traces the development of her sexuality, her relationships with men, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse. Bolstered with research, Zolbrod argues passionately for the empowerment of sexual abuse victims and the courage it takes to talk about it. The Telling is an intimate examination of one woman's reckoning with a past she can't always explain, and a life lived in search for the right words. Zoe Zolbrod 's work has appeared in Salon , the Nervous Breakdown , the Weeklings , and the Rumpus , where she serves as the Sunday Editor. Her debut novel Currency won a 2010 Nobbie Award and received an honorable mention by Friends of American Writers. Zolbrod lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband and children.