Women We Buried, Women We Burned, Rachel Louise Snyder
Women We Buried, Women We Burned, Rachel Louise Snyder
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Women We Buried, Women We Burned
A Memoir

Author: Rachel Louise Snyder

Narrator: Rachel Louise Snyder

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2023

Synopsis

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. This is her own story.

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.

About Rachel Louise Snyder

Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim, the novel What We've Lost is Nothing, 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 is a professor of creative writing and journalism at American University. She lives in Washington DC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosh ~catching up slowly~ on June 17, 2023

In a Nutshell: An interesting memoir by a woman who grew up in an extreme evangelical family and made her own way around the world using nothing but her own skills. Not exactly as promised in the blurb, but a decent read nonetheless. Synopsis: When author Rachel Snyder was eight (in 1977), her Jewish......more

Goodreads review by Provin on July 01, 2023

I picked up this memoir on an absolute fluke and guess what? I loved it! It’s a brilliant story about a woman overcoming her childhood to be a successful strong female role model for others who have experienced similar situation‘s. When I started the book I didn’t know if I was going to appreciate i......more

Goodreads review by Anne on January 28, 2023

From the title, I expected this to be a book sort of related to the witches’ trials, and the women that were burned and killed due to their independence, strong-willed attitudes, lack of submission to the patriarchy, etc For anyone else thinking the same: IT’S NOT. It’s a memoir. It’s heart wrenching......more

Goodreads review by Marilyn (not getting notifications) on May 31, 2023

Women We Buried, Women We Burned by Rachel Louise Snyder was both a harrowing and inspirational memoir. Although Rachel Louise Snyder has written several books, this was the first book I have read by her. How fitting that I picked her own memoir to read as my first book by her. In Women We Buried, W......more

Goodreads review by Jackie on June 22, 2023

The basic synopsis: Snyder loses her mother young, and falls into an evangelist cult with her father and brother shortly thereafter, and the book talks of her life from there to what is maybe her mid-to-late 30s. I was captivated by this book title, and by the initial synopsis, however, what I was pr......more

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