Vendor
	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
Original language
English

THE TELLING

Zoe Zolbrod

a memoir

Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for
nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn't sure what to
expect, or what to say. Through a kaleidoscopic series of experiences
Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another, hangs out in
a strip club in Philadelphia, meets and marries her husband, and gives birth
to her childrenshe traces the development of her sexuality, her
relationships with men, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow
of her childhood sexual abuse. Bolstered with research, Zolbrod argues
passionately for the empowerment of sexual abuse victims and the courage it takes to talk about it.
The Telling is an intimate examination of one woman's reckoning with a past
she can't always explain, and a life lived in search for the right words.

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Comments

A gripping read. The Telling is brutally honest, relentlessly passionate and ferociously intelligent. Zolbrod has written a page turnerone unlike any you've ever experienced before.

This remarkable memoir shines a light into the most shadowy corners of the soul and demonstrates the transcendent power of truth. Both authentic and likable, Zolbrod weaves a masterful and compelling narrative and examines tough issues with remarkable nuance and sensitivity. I will not soon forget this beautiful book.

Evocative, fiercely intelligent, and beautifully constructed. In telling her story, Zolbrod becomes a time traveler, making elegant leaps from early childhood to her unconventional coming of age to the embattled but deep satisfactions of her own motherhood. The Telling is a necessary memoir in every way.

beautiful, and most importantly, I think, profoundly accessible...Zolbrod gives us nuance and complexity, truth that pushes past the single story of victim and into this beautiful mess of a life. At times, I wanted to set the walls on fire. At times, I wanted to put down the book and hug my small son. At times, I was swept away in the narrative, an expertly woven structure of what a young girl lived and a grown woman understood. And always, the questions: when and how and who do you tell? Zolbrod is telling us. Let's listen.

One of the most stunning memoirs I've ever read. In this perfectlycrafted story Zolbrod exercises her impeccable command of language to explore a dark subject with beauty, humility and fierce grace. This book burns bright on the list of those that will stay with me for years to come.

Spiked with Zolbrod's humor and her novelist's eye for detail, this layered, ingeniously constructed story reminded me of so many favorite memoirs of recent years, from Alice Sebold's Lucky to Claire Dederer's Poser, but Zolbrod's spiky, uncompromising style is utterly her own.

In telling her story, Zolbrod becomes a time traveler, making elegant leaps from early childhood to her unconventional coming of age to the embattled but deep satisfactions of her own motherhood. The result is a book that ponders the way the past informs the presentand the mysterious manner in which resilience works.