LIVE from NYPL, Online: LIVE from NYPL: Rachel Louise Snyder with Tali Farhadian Weinstein

The New York Public Library's 2020 Helen Bernstein Book Award winner probes the true roots and scope of our domestic violence crisis. 

Prior to coronavirus, domestic violence had already been deemed "a global pandemic" by the World Health Organization. Since lockdowns began around the planet, it is estimated that the increase of women subjected to violence by their partners is 600 percent. Violence inside the home is a public-health problem, not a private matter, and yet it remains shrouded in too much silence, argues this year's winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award. Rachel Louise Snyder's No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us reports on victims, perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements from across the country, exploring the real roots of private violence, its far-reaching consequences for society, and what it will take to truly address it.

Snyder, who has previously received the Overseas Press Award for her work on This American Life, is joined in conversation by Tali Farhadian Weinstein, a prosecutor, teacher, and advocate for criminal justice reform. Having served in the United States Department of Justice from 2009 to 2017, and as Counsel to the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, Weinstein is currently General Counsel of the District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn and an NYPL Trustee. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Rachel Louise Snyder’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and elsewhere. Her other books include Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, and the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing. No Visible Bruises was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. 

Tali Farhadian Weinstein’s family fled Iran as refugees and brought her to the United States so she could grow up experiencing safety, fairness and justice, and she in turn has dedicated her career to fighting for those principles. In addition to her role as General Counsel of the District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, she is also an Adjunct Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at NYU Law School and was previously a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. 

GET THE BOOK 
If you have an NYPL library card—or live in New York state and want to apply for one now—you can borrow No Visible Bruises for free with our e-reader app SimplyE, available for iOS and Android devices. Readers everywhere who wish to purchase a copy of No Visible Bruises can do so at The New York Public Library Shop.

FURTHER READING
Check out these titles to explore more:
Why Does He Do That?  by Lundy Bancroft
In the Dream House  by Carmen Maria Machado

You can check out previous winners of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism here.

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