A Silent Treatment: A Memoir by Vanasco, Jeannie

A Silent Treatment: A Memoir

She did it to my dad, though. They used the silent treatment on each other, she explained,...
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Author: Jeannie Vanasco
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A Silent Treatment: A Memoir by Vanasco, Jeannie

A Silent Treatment: A Memoir

$41.21

A Silent Treatment: A Memoir

$41.21
Author: Jeannie Vanasco
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
She did it to my dad, though. They used the silent treatment on each other, she explained, because they didn't want to say something they'd regret.

What does she want to say now that she'd regret?


Jeannie Vanasco's mother starts using the silent treatment not long after moving into the renovated apartment within Jeannie's home. The silences begin at any perceived slight. Her shortest period of silence lasts two weeks. Her longest, six months. As Vanasco guides us through her mother's childhood, their shared past, and the devastating silence of their present, she paints a layered, complicated portrait of a mother and daughter looking, failing, and--in big and small ways--succeeding to understand each other. In the margins of her research, at her kitchen table with her partner, in phone calls to friends, and in delightful hey google queries, Vanasco explores the loneliness and isolation of silence as punishment, both in her own life and beyond it, and confronts her greatest fear: that her mother will never speak to her again.

From the acclaimed author of Things We Didn't Talk About When I was a Girl and The Glass Eye, Jeannie Vanasco's A Silent Treatment is a searingly honest and lasting testament to the power of all things left unsaid.

Author: Jeannie Vanasco
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781963108453


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 08/04/2025
Booklist 09/01/2025
Shelf Awareness 09/07/2025

About the Author
Vanasco, Jeannie: - Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl and The Glass Eye. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University.

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