No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
The book that changed the conversation about domestic violence―an award-winning journalist’s intimate investigation of the abuse that happens behind closed doors, now with a new afterword by the author.
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, domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains locked in silence, even as its tendrils reach unseen into so many of our most pressing national issues, 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. […Learn More]
