Intriguing.

Her propulsive, high-stress journey is filled with dread and fear, underpinned by her hard-won compassion for the profound pain her long-ago self believed she had no choice but to disown.

An extraordinary task.

Intimate.

Eschewing a linear narrative, Hodes revisits the same events multiple times, as if another trip back to a particular moment will prove illuminating. The fact that such revelations fail to appear makes the narrative feel repetitious and sometimes superficial. The book is most interesting when the author writes candidly about the psychic burden of staying silent and the difficulty of excavating long-buried memories. In a mixed-success attempt to understand her past, Hodes unearths trauma and contends with its aftermath..