JFS and Rachel Coalition, the domestic violence division of JFS, will host the next book club discussion virtually on Tuesday, November 14 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. Many popular books raise issues connected to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating abuse and stalking. Their goal is to engage community members in the work they do at JFS and Rachel Coalition while providing education on domestic violence and other related topics.

Book selection: “Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir” by Rachel Louise Snyder.

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women’s lives. Women We Buried, Women We Burned is her own story.

Snyder was 8 years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and home at age 16. Living out of her car and relying on strangers, Rachel found herself masquerading as an adult, talking her way into college and eventually traveling the globe.

Survival became her reporter’s beat. In places like India, Tibet and Niger, she interviewed those who had been through the unimaginable. In Cambodia, where she lived for six years, she watched a country reckon with the horrors of its own recent history. When she returned to the States with a family of her own, it was with a new perspective on old family wounds and a chance for healing from the most unexpected place.

A piercing account of Snyder’s journey from teenage runaway to reporter on the global epidemic of domestic violence, Women We Buried, Women We Burned is a memoir that embodies the transformative power of resilience.

For more information and to register, visit www.jfsmetrowest.org/book-club-november.

For specific questions regarding the book club, please contact Kimberly Clerie at [email protected]  or (973) 637-1724.