--Jane Smiley
Schulman examines a range of case studies
and all of humanity will be caught in its consuming fire
One of the sharpest and most emotionally vulnerable novels on the complicated dynamic of dating cisgender straight men as a trans woman
A Survivor's Education Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell Will Wootton --Jane SmileyBy: Joy Neumeyer Published by PublicAffairs, 2024 "In Berkeley, on a picturesque university campus in the springtime, a young woman is shoved backwards down a concrete stairway by her partner. This follows months of escalating violence, during which he slams her into walls, chokes her, pours beer on her, threatens to kill her, stalks her, promises to split her head open with a hammer. She ends the relationship, cuts off contact, flees to the other