Jeannie Vanasco — A Silent Treatment - with Jung Yun

Jeannie Vanasco's mother starts using the silent treatment not long after moving into the renovated apartment within Jeannie's home. The silences begin at any perceived slight. Her shortest period of silence lasts two weeks. Her longest, six months. As Vanasco guides us through her mother's childhood, their shared past, and the devastating silence of their present, she paints a layered, complicated portrait of a mother and daughter looking, failing, and--in big and small ways--succeeding to understand each other. In the margins of her research, at her kitchen table with her partner, in phone calls to friends, and in delightful hey google queries, Vanasco explores the loneliness and isolation of silence as punishment, both in her own life and beyond it, and confronts her greatest fear: that her mother will never speak to her again. From the acclaimed author of Things We Didn't Talk About When I was a Girl and The Glass Eye, Jeannie Vanasco's A Silent Treatment is a searingly honest and lasting testament to the power of all things left unsaid.Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl and The Glass Eye. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University.Vanasco is in conversation with Jung Yun, a novelist, an associate professor of English at the George Washington University, and a board member of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Her third novel, All the World Can Hold, will be published in March 2026 by 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster. https://politics-prose.com/book/9781963108453?ic_referral=aAXDZ0lTa0PgGbHaXMSKAM2v5pb0X4C8lgiNLclU5qswMy7V26LbJt5KBrPAKp_ilYHdpWVXSjLEfLfdEN8Y-wjHLqe6q2zLq4iptNoNgn1JBBZNxQisx6reZV_FQqwaEKn8Jio