BOOK CLUB
The Finding Our Voices book club meets, mostly online, about five times a year WITH THE AUTHOR to discuss books about domestic abuse and through the lens of domestic abuse.
Everyone is welcome, regardless of gender, and there is no cost.
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Upcoming Online Discussions WITH THE AUTHOR!
Tuesday Sep 16, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm - EDT
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
"Through brilliant insights and myth-busting research, compelling storytelling, and a passionate focus on truth-telling, Rachel Louise Snyder places domestic violence exactly where it should be, smack in the center of everything. A tour de force.” —V (formerly Eve Ensler)
We’ll be talking about programs across the country that are making a difference with domestic violence, and how Maine can adopt them!
Rachel is a professor at at American University, investigative journalist, and writer of the most compelling and important articles on domestic violence I have seen including as a regular contributor to the New York Times.
I recommend you also read Rachel's terrific memoir Women We Buried, Women We Burned!
Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm - EDT
Stronger: What Didn’t Kill Me, Made Me
by Nicola Hanney
First-time author Nicola will be joining us from Ireland to talk about her devastating memoir about the sadistic terrorizing from her policeman-ex that saw him finally sent to prison— but not for long enough, natch— with a conviction for coercive control.
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm - EDT
The Women Behind the Door: A Novel
by Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle will be joining us from Ireland for a discussion over Zoom of his brilliant trilogy on Paula Spencer, starting with The Women Who Walked Into Doors, then to Paula Spencer, and right up to this year's The Women Behind the Door. His first book was earth shattering to me, when I read it --twice in a row-- without consciously understanding that I was also living this kind of life, albeit in a higher socio-economic level than Paula. The latest book is a devastating and spot-on examination of domestic abuse's impact to the mother and daughter relationship.
I met a group of women who’d been in violent relationships, years ago—when [The Women Who Walked Into Doors] first came out. They’d all read the book, and one of them said: ‘How did you get inside my fuckin’ head?’ It’s the best review I ever got.
—Roddy Doyle in a 2019 letter to Patrisha
The authors of these 17 books have joined us for Finding Our Voices discussions!
Watch our in-person April book club discussion with Author Gretchen Cherington at Print: A Book Store in Portland.
Watch our online October 2024 book club discussion
with Author Andre Dubus III
Please support your local bookstore!
Lundy Bancroft’s “Why Does He Do That” is valuable to understanding the pattern of abuse. Finding Our Voices donates copies of this book to our sisters, inscribed by survivors whose photos are featured on our posters and bookmarks, like Christine pictured here.
The Road to After is about the 10 year captivity of Rebekah Lowell (seen here hanging up her Finding Our Voices poster in Biddeford) as seen through the eyes of her children, and how the family healed through nature and art expressed in verse and illustration.
