Author of ‘No Visible Bruises’ joins Finding Our Voices book discussion

Rachel Louise Snyder will join the online discussion of her manifesto “No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us” with the Finding Our Voices Book Club on Tuesday, Sept. 16. The 6:30 p.m., 90-minute event is free, with the public invited to join by visiting this page of the Finding Our Voices website: https://findingourvoices.net/book-club.

“A keening for the battered and a shout of outrage for the lost,” is how one reviewer described the award-winning 2019 book, with another calling it “a manifesto that turns a regressive notion about the causes of domestic violence on its head by illustrating domestic violence as a public health problem with solutions.”

Snyder is also the author of the memoir “Women We Buried, Women We Burned”, recounting her own troubled family story.

Patrisha McLean, CEO and founder of Finding Our Voices, was recently called “The nonprofit leader leading the fight on domestic violence in Maine.” She said, “Some of the topics that I am looking forward to talking about with Rachel are coercive control, programs in other parts of the country that Maine can learn from, the link between domestic violence and guns and also mass murders, scandalous inaction by the courts, and the impact of domestic abuse on children.” 

McLean said the Finding Our Voices Book Club is “one more creative way our grassroots and survivor-driven nonprofit is breaking the silence of domestic abuse.” The club meets about five times a year, discussing books with the authors through the lens of domestic abuse. McLean said book club members attend from around the world and include those who do not identify as survivors, “making for eye- and mind-opening discussion.”  

The October and November Finding Our Voices Book Club authors will both be joining from Dublin, Nicola Hanney with her memoir of coercive control “Stronger: What Didn’t Kill Me Made Me,” and two-time Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle, talking about his trilogy on Paula Spencer capped by last year’s “The Women Behind the Door”. 

For more information on the Finding Our Voices Book Club including joining the upcoming discussions, visit https://findingourvoices.net/book-club.

Finding Our Voices is the grassroots and survivor-driven nonprofit breaking the silence of domestic abuse as well as providing sister-support and meaningful resources to Maine’s victims/survivors. For more information visit https://findingourvoices.net.