A Silent Treatment: A Memoir

"Shortly after Jeannie Vanasco invites her mom to live in the basement apartment of her home, her mom starts giving her the silent treatment. Sometimes for just a few days, but once for half a year. Why? A Silent Treatment is both a memoir and a chronicle of Vanasco’s search for answers: She makes lists, texts her mom, consults her very patient husband, Chris, calls friends, and asks the internet. “Hey Google. Why might a parent use the silent treatment?” It’s because Jeannie Vanasco is a good writer that this memoir feels raw and intimate – kind of like listening in on someone else’s therapy session – but it’s because she’s a good person that it also feels like a remarkably kind, patient and empathetic book."