Rachel Louise Snyder

An award-winning journalist's exploration of America's domestic violence epidemic, how we have misunderstood it, what it portends about other types of violence, and how to address it.We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a 'global epidemic.' In America, intimate partner violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains an object of silence, spoken of in hushed tones, even as its tendrils reach unseen into every national issue from our economy to our education system, from mass shootings to mass incarceration to #MeToo. We still have not taken the true measure of this problem.In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder gives an urgent and immersive account of the scope of domestic violence in our country, structured around key case studies that explode the common myths - that if things were bad enough, victims would just leave; that a violent person cannot become nonviolent; that shelter is an adequate response; that violence inside the home is separate from other forms of violence like mass shootings, gang violence, and sexual assault. Through the stories of victims, perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements from across the country, Snyder explores not only the real roots of domestic violence, but also its far-reaching consequences for society, and what it will take to truly address it.

What We Don’t Know About Violence Can Kill Us

No Visible Bruises

A Memoir

Women We Buried, Women We Burned

A human-scale view of global trade offers insight into the complex roles played by treaties, international affairs, and labor in the assembly of a pair of jeans.

A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade

Fugitive Denim

w pułapce przemocy domowej

Śladów pobicia brak

Görünmeyen Yaralar

Living on a suburban cul-de-sac positioned between extremely wealthy and impoverished neighbors, high school student Mary Elizabeth McPherson witnesses acts of violence and compassion that reverberate throughout her community in the wake of a string of burglaries. A first novel by the author of Fugitive Denim.

A Novel

What We've Lost Is Nothing

In her “keenly observed” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) debut, Rachel Louise Snyder author of the award-winning No Visible Bruises, chronicles the twenty-four hours following a mass burglary in a Chicago suburb and the suspicions, secrets, and prejudices that surface in its wake. Nestled on the edge of Chicago’s gritty west side, Oak Park is a suburb in flux. To the west, theaters and shops frame posh houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. To the east lies a neighborhood still recovering from urban decline. In the center of the community sits Ilios Lane, a pristine cul-de-sac dotted with quiet homes that bridge the surrounding extremes of wealth and poverty. On the first warm day in April, Mary Elizabeth McPherson, a lifelong resident of Ilios Lane, skips school with her friend Sofia. As the two experiment with a heavy dose of ecstasy in Mary Elizabeth’s dining room, a series of home invasions rocks their neighborhood. At first the community is determined to band together, but rising suspicions soon threaten to destroy the world they were attempting to create. Filtered through a vibrant pinwheel of characters, Snyder’s tour de force evokes the heightened tension of a community on edge as it builds towards an explosive conclusion. Incisive and panoramic, What We’ve Lost Is Nothing illuminates the evolving relationship between American cities and their suburbs, the hidden prejudices that can threaten a way of life, and the redemptive power of tolerance in a community torn asunder. “Ideas abound in this thoughtful story, a demonstration of the author’s years of experience as a community organizer. What We’ve Lost Is Nothing has the stamp of authenticity” (The Washington Post).

What We Don't Know about Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

A portrait of the multibillion-dollar denim industry evaluates the human, environmental, and political forces that support it from Azerbaijan cotton pickers and Cambodian seamstresses to Italian denim fabric makers and New York fashion designers, in an account that traces the ways in which specific label choices impact people throughout the world. Reprint.

Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade

AN ESQUIRE AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. An award-winning journalist's exploration of the domestic violence epidemic, and how to combat it. An average of 137 women are killed by familial violence across the globe every day. In the UK alone, two women die each week at the hands of their partners, and in the US domestic violence homicides have risen by 32 percent since 2017. The WHO deems it a 'global epidemic'. Yet public understanding of this urgent problem remains catastrophically low. Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder was no exception. Despite years of experience reporting on international conflicts, when it came to violence in the domestic sphere, she believed all the common assumptions- that it was a fate for the unlucky few, a matter of bad choices and cruel environments. That if things were dire enough, victims would leave. That violence inside the home was private. And, perhaps most of all, that unless you stand at the receiving end of a punch, it has nothing to do with you. All this changed when Snyder began talking to the victims and perpetrators whose stories she tells in this book. Fearlessly reporting from the front lines of the epidemic, in No Visible Bruises she interviews men who have murdered their families, women who have nearly been murdered, and people who have grown up besieged by familial aggression, painting a vivid and nuanced picture of its reality. She talks to experts in violence prevention and law enforcement, revealing how domestic abuse has its roots in our education, economic, health, and justice systems, and how by tackling these origins we can render it preventable.

“A fascinating chronicle of the $55-billion-a-year global denim industry.” —David Futrelle, Los Angeles Times Rachel Louise Snyder reports from the far reaches of the multi-billion-dollar denim industry in search of the people who make your clothes. From a cotton picker in Azerbaijan to a Cambodian seamstress, a denim maker in Italy to a fashion designer in New York, Snyder captures the human, environmental, and political forces at work in a complex and often absurd world. Neither polemic nor prescription, Fugitive Denim captures what it means to work in the twenty-first century.

In No Visible Bruises, Rachel Louise Snyder gives context for what we don't know we're seeing. She frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths―that if things were bad enough, victims would just leave.

Sin Marcas Visibles

* HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD * * FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD * * FINALIST LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE * * FINALIST ABA SILVER GAVEL AWARD * * FINALIST KIRKUS PRIZE * Multipremiata jurnalistă Rachel Louise Snyder cercetează subiectul „terorismului intim“ și extinderea violenței domestice în SUA prin studii de caz analize și portrete. Explorează istorii personale și miturile care înconjoară această temă în discursul public: transformarea victimei în vinovat violența recurentă la agresori ideea că violența domestică e o chestiune tabu. Printr-o cercetare aprofundată a mărturiilor adunate de la victime de la agresori de la oamenii legii și de la diverse ONG-uri Snyder ajunge la rădăcina violenței domestice și la consecințele ei indiscutabile pentru întreaga societate și face cunoscuți pașii necesari pentru a o reduce cu adevărat. „Un reportaj terifiant și curajos din zona de război din interiorul nostru. (…) Snyder scrie cu luciditate abrazivă și multă compasiune spunând povești de o actualitate stringentă cu un talent narativ absolut remarcabil.“ Andrew Solomon „Un studiu extraordinar motivat de dorința evidentă de a produce o schimbare. Snyder folosește toate tehnicile literare disponibile: trece de la istorie la prezent de la scene de viață la analiză cu o virtuozitate relaxată demnă de admirație.“ Parul Sehgal New York Times „Și chiar și pentru acelea care știu sau intuiesc ca Michelle Monson Mosure este un salt cognitiv absolut să își imagineze că această persoană pe care o iubesc sau care le-a iubit această persoană cu care au făcut un copil această persoană cu care au avut un angajament și viceversa această persoană cu care împărtășesc fiecare detaliu mare sau mic al vieții ar putea cu adevărat să le ia viața. Iubirea este cea care face ca violența domestică să fie diferită de oricare altă crimă. Faptul că persoanele implicate și-au spus una alteia și lumii: «Tu ești cea mai importantă ființă pentru mine.» Iar apoi într-o clipă acea relație să devină letală? Este o idee care ne cere să trecem peste niște obstacole mentale intelectuale emoționale dincolo de orice ne putem imagina.“

Rachel Louise Snyder

About

Books

Join the club