“She’s someone who kind of goes off into the mountains and then comes back down with a masterpiece,” she said. When she started writing the book, Róisín said there was much she didn’t know. “It was a part of me that was being erased because I saw it as no other choice,” she said. “I think the greatest gift of this book is breaking through silences that have long plagued our communities,” Tanaïs said. “Having a young person voice their pain and trauma and move through it is a gift for young people and people who have healed from trauma and survivors of trauma, like myself, who need that.”

Source: New York Times September 27, 2020 09:00 UTC