A Survivor's Education
Neumeyer, Joy
A moving, timely and engaging memoir of domestic abuse, the American campus, and the narratives we choose to believe. In Berkeley, on a picturesque university campus in the springtime, a young woman is shoved backwards down a concrete stairway by her partner. This follows months of escalating violence, during which he slams her into walls, chokes her, pours beer on her, threatens to kill her, stalks her, promises to split her head open with a ...