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Now I Can See The Moon: A Story of a Social Panic, False Memories, and a Life Cut Short
Now I Can See The Moon: A Story of a Social Panic, False Memories, and a Life Cut Short
Now I Can See The Moon: A Story of a Social Panic, False Memories, and a Life Cut Short
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Now I Can See The Moon: A Story of a Social Panic, False Memories, and a Life Cut Short

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In the 1980s and 1990s, a mind-boggling social panic over child sex abuse swept through the country, landing childcare workers in prison and leading hundreds of women to begin recalling episodes of satanic ritual abuse and childhood abuse by family members. Now I Can See the Moon: A Story of a Social Panic, False Memories, and a Life Cut Short is a deeply personal account of the devastating impact the panic had on one family. In trying to understand the suicide of her twenty-three-year-old niece, a victim of the panic, the author discovers that what she thought was an isolated tragedy was, in fact, part of a much larger social phenomenon that sucked in individuals from all walks of life, convincing them to believe the unbelievable and embrace the most aberrant claims as truth.
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Release dateApr 24, 2018
ISBN9781631523311
Now I Can See The Moon: A Story of a Social Panic, False Memories, and a Life Cut Short
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Alice Tallmadge

Alice Tallmadge has been a reporter, writer, and editor since receiving her master’s degree from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism in 1987. She was a correspondent for The Oregonian newspaper from 1999 to 2005, and a reporter and assistant editor for the Eugene Weekly in the 1990s. Her essays and stories have appeared in Portland Magazine, Forest Magazine, Oregon Humanities, the Register-Guard, Oregon Quarterly, and The New York Times. Her guidebook for juvenile sex offenders, Tell It Like It Is, was published by Safer Society Press in 1998. She was an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication from 2008 to 2014. She is currently a freelance editor.

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    I've read a good bit about the 'satanic panic' of the 80s and 90s over the years, but this book made me realize just how much I didn't know. Seeing a very raw, very human account of one family's experience opened my eyes to so much. While reading Tallmadge's book, I thought more deeply and critically about the entire issue than I ever had before. That said, it's very much a memoir. The exposition felt long and some passages seemed unnecessary. Getting through the first half of the book was a bit of a slog, but it was completely worth it. I read that part over the course of 2-3 weeks, but the last half I finished in a single day.

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