Seventeen years after she married, Judith Strasser  escaped her emotionally and physically abusive husband and sought a  better way to live. In the process, Strasser rediscovered what she  had suppressed through that long span of time: exceptional strength  and a passion for writing.  Black Eye includes excerpts from a journal Strasser kept  from 1985 to 1986--the year she made the decision to leave her  marriage--and present-day commentary on the journal passages and her  family history. Strasser works like a detective investigating her own  life, drawing clarity and power from journal passages, dreams, and  memories that originally emerged from confusion and despair. With  language that is both insightful and poetic, she reveals the  psychological and social circumstances that led a "strong" woman, an  intelligent and politically active feminist, to become an emotionally  dependent, abused wife.  Not coincidentally, the same year that Strasser finally found the  courage to leave her husband, she also reclaimed her creative voice.  Newly empowered and energized by this enormous life change, Strasser  began writing again after twenty-five silent years dominated by her  mother's illness and death, her own cancer, and her painful, fearful  marriage. Black Eye is one of the fruits of this creative  reawakening. Strasser's writing is refreshingly honest and instantly  engrossing. Not shy of wretchedness or beauty, Strasser's story is  bitterly personal, ultimately triumphant, and inspiring to all who  deal with the adversity that is part of human life.

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