Unveiling Secrets: Karen Palmer’s Shocking Journey Behind She’s Under Here
LL: It’s really important to give voice to the abuse you endured. Some might call this ‘just another book about domestic violence,’ which really gets under my skin. It’s about private violence, about desire and fear, victim and perpetrator. Many women, even now, are not taken seriously when they sound the alarm. How can women be heard? What will it take?
KP: “Just another book about domestic violence” is such a damning frame. Because any one woman’s story is always much larger than her abuse. Because I’d assumed a false identity, I was interested in the question: How do you know who you are? That was my entry into the book, but there are a million other questions an abuse narrative might address.
