Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
Written by Rachel Louise Snyder
Narrated by Rachel Louise Snyder
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Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and home at age sixteen. Living out of her car and relying on strangers, Rachel found herself masquerading as an adult, talking her way into college, and eventually traveling the globe.
Survival became her reporter's beat. In places like India, Tibet, and Niger, she interviewed those who had been through the unimaginable. In Cambodia, where she lived for six years, she watched a country reckon with the horrors of its own recent history. When she returned to the States with a family of her own, it was with a new perspective on old family wounds, and a chance for healing from the most unexpected place.
A piercing account of Snyder's journey from teenage runaway to reporter on the global epidemic of domestic violence, Women We Buried, Women We Burned is a memoir that embodies the transformative power of resilience.
Rachel Louise Snyder
Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of the memoir Women We Buried, Women We Burned; the novel What We’ve Lost Is Nothing; Fugitive Denim; and No Visible Bruises, a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the Hillman Prize, and the Helen Bernstein Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Kirkus Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and elsewhere. A 2020–2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Snyder lives in Washington, DC, where she is an associate professor of creative writing and journalism at American University.
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