Denial

"[An] eloquent, vital book. . .brilliant [and] indispensable."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"[Denial is a] powerfully constructed memoir ... [an] incandescently honest book..."--Washington Post
"[Stern's rapist] whose chaotic life and whose own probable victimization Stern reconstructs, caused her lifelong anguish. She doesn't simply tell us so but shows us in shattered, artfully repetitive narration."--Boston Globe
"An extraordinary memoir conveys Stern's process of denial, dissociation, and healing in her dawning realization of intolerable truths."--Providence Journal
"DENIAL [is] a profound human document... it is hot to the touch in ways that are both memorable and disturbing."--New York Times
"In this skillfully wrought, powerful study, a terrorism expert, national security adviser, and lecturer at Harvard, returns to a definitive episode of terror in her own early life and traces its grim, damaging ramifications... Stern's work is a strong, clear-eyed, elucidating study of the profound reverberations of trauma."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Most moving is the author's contemplation of denial itself, and its effect of re-victimizing the victim... She successfully unearths difficult emotional terrain without sinking into utter subjectivity and maintains an orderly progression without becoming clinical. A disturbing, captivating memoir."--Kirkus Reviews
"Wonderfully compassionate, absorbing reading for anyone."--Booklist (starred review)
"[Stern's] commitment to introspection makes for a book that is memorably searing..."--New York Times Book Review