In-Store Event: WOMEN WE BURIED, WOMEN WE BURNED by Rachel Louise Snyder

Join us for an in-person event celebrating the release of WOMEN WE BURIED, WOMEN WE BURNED by Rachel Louise Snyder! For this event, Rachel will be joined by Elizabeth Taylor. 

Please note: Pre-registration for this event is required. By pre-registering, you are verifying that you are fully vaccinated and will wear a mask throughout the entirety of the event.

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 eight 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.

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Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and No Visible Bruises, winner of a J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the Hillman Prize, and the Helen Bernstein Book Award; and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, LA Times Book Prizes, and Kirkus Prize. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, and elsewhere. A 2020-2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Snyder is a Professor of Creative Writing and Journalism at American University and lives in Washington, DC.

Elizabeth Taylor, literary editor at large of the Chicago Tribune, is past president of the National Books Critics Circle and has served on four Pulitzer Prize juries, three times as chair. She is the co-author, with Adam Cohen, of “American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle for Chicago and the Nation,” named one of the best books of the year by “The New York Times” and winner of the Society of Midland Authors Prize. She has an M.A. in History from Yale University, and graduated from Mount Holyoke College, where she later served on the college’s board of trustees and returned as a visiting professor. Taylor loves theater, travel and — obviously — books.

Accessibility: This event is hosted in the bookstore, which is an accessible space. Seating is first come, first serve. For questions or other access needs, please email [email protected]. 

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Women & Children First, 5233 North Clark Street, Chicago, United States