During a time when misogyny is increasingly normalized, survivor voices continue to be silenced, and programs to address gender-based violence are threatened in unprecedented ways, Amy Griffin’s moving new memoir, The Tell, isn’t just timely. It’s taking on the status quo.
An exploration of why we suppress our most painful memories, and the story of a journey to wholeness that included the pursuit of legal justice, psychedelic therapy, and a return to her Texas home, Amy – a member of our Center for Story & Witness Launch and Leadership Circle – has written a book that reminds us that healing isn’t a destination, but a complicated, lifelong process we do in community. And that the fight for justice is also a fight for joy.
On Tuesday, May 6th, Center for Story & Witness will be joining our allies at Joyful Heart Foundation for a JHF Book Club conversation about The Tell. Register now to be a part of what we know will be an inspiring, timely conversation. See you there!
Because the only thing better than a new book is a full library: Check out other notable titles from our Center for Story & Witness writers.
Jimmie Briggs’s Innocents Lost (Basic Books) explores how child soldiers are forced into war … Linda Kay Klein’s Pure (Simon and Schuster) takes a look at what “purity culture” costs women and girls … Brenda Myers-Powell’s Leaving Breezy Street (Henry Holt & Co) is a memoir of a life in and journey out of the sex trade … Anne K. Ream’s Lived Through This (Beacon Press) documents a multi-country journey spent listening to sexual violence survivors … R. Clifton Spargo’s Beautiful Fools (Overlook Press) is historical fiction that sympathetically explores the mental health struggles faced by Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald … and Tod Lending’s The Umbrella Maker’s Son (Harper Collins) follows a young Polish Jew through his journey to escape the Nazis.
