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My Lie, September 2010
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A True Story of False Memory
John Wiley and Sons
September 2010
On Sale: September 14, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 0470502142
EAN: 9780470502143
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her
father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that
he was innocent. During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans
became convinced that they had repressed memories of
childhood sexual abuse, and then, decades later, recovered
those memories in therapy. Journalist, mother, and daughter Meredith Maran was one of
them. Her accusation and estrangement from her father caused
her sons to grow up without their only grandfather, divided
her family into those who believed her and those who didn't,
and led her to isolate herself on "Planet Incest," where
"survivors" devoted their lives, and life savings, to
recovering memories of events that had never occurred. Maran unveils her family's devastation and ultimate
redemption against the backdrop of the sex-abuse scandals,
beginning with the infamous McMartin preschool trial, that
sent hundreds of innocents to jail—several of whom remain
imprisoned today. Exploring the psychological, cultural, and neuroscientific
causes of this modern American witch-hunt, My Lie asks: how
could so many people come to believe the same lie at the
same time? What has neuroscience discovered about the
brain's capacity to create false memories and encode false
beliefs? What are the "big lies" gaining traction in
American culture today—and how can we keep them from taking
hold? My Lie is a wrenchingly honest, unexpectedly witty, and
profoundly human story that proves the personal is indeed
political—and the political can become painfully personal.
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