Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe - Ingram

Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe

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Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe - Ingram
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Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe

Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe

$37.00
$37.00

"Just as much an investigator as a memoirist, Nevils attempts to tunnel through the lurid details and the #MeToo boilerplate and unearth something much knottier."
--The Atlantic

A powerful and personal examination of our most persistent and dangerous misunderstandings, myths and stereotypes about sexual harassment and assault

In 2017, Brooke Nevils made a confidential HR complaint about one of the most powerful and familiar faces in media. Twenty-four hours later, the highest paid morning news anchor in history was fired, stunning millions of Americans in one of the MeToo era's defining stories. Demanding answers--and the intimate details of the most personal and painful humiliation of her life--the press soon discovered her identity.

But hers was not the kind of black-and-white story the media knew how to tell. There'd been no explicit threats. She hadn't screamed, fought, or gone to the police. Instead, she returned to her abuser again and again in a frantic attempt to "fix" an impossible situation that threatened her livelihood and the people closest to her. Yet as MeToo unfolded, Brooke learned that messy stories like hers were far from the exception, and that nearly everything she'd believed about sexual harassment and assault--and how victims react to it--was wrong. She began a yearslong effort to confront and understand her own experience, not simply as a woman reckoning with her past, but as a journalist confronting the critical questions that MeToo asked but ultimately left unanswered.

Through groundbreaking interviews with leading clinicians, forensic professionals, attorneys, and frontline researchers, Unspeakable Things challenges our understanding of consent, power, and the lingering, often misunderstood effects of trauma and shame. Despite its rarefied setting at the height of fame, power, and American media, Brooke's story serves as a textbook example of an all-too-common scenario that continues to devastate lives and enable abusers. This book is a powerful re-examination of everything we think we know, the start to a new conversation, and--for anyone who has ever felt ashamed, hopeless, alone, and afraid--a light in the dark.
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