Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

“Selvaratnam very bravely and compellingly uses her personal experience to shine a light on the global crisis of violence against women.An important book for the women’s rights movement, Assume Nothing demonstrates that violence against women exists across race, class, economic status and education levels, and may be perpetrated by those we think of as allies!It dispels the myth that there are certain types of victims and perpetrators.It will help a lot of people, and particularly those who hesitate to identify as a victim/survivor for fear of losing their grounding both publicly and privately.”-Yasmeen Hassan, Global Executive Director, Equality Now“This courageous and terrifying book charts the author’s descent into an abusive relationship and also her emergence from it in taut, seductive prose.Selvaratnam explains how-even as an educated, sophisticated, liberal feminist-she was enthralled by her lover’s fame and tolerated escalating personal violence.Her narrative is vivid and braci