Taryn Harbert’s Reviews > Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language > Status Update

there is no singular way to write about trauma, and that sometimes to write about trauma did not require excavating intimate details…The nature of the abuse, the severity of it—these things are clear, but she offers not one explicit detail. When I first read the memoir, I admired that restraint, that dignified discretion, that ability to protect herself while still telling the whole of her story, on her terms