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Tanya Silverratanam is the author of Assume Nothing, a memoir of intimate violence. She's also the author of The Big Lie,

motherhood, feminism, and the reality of the biological clock. Her work has been published

by the New York Times, Vogue, CNN, Glamour, and McSweeney's. She is an Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning filmmaker who has produced for Aubin Pictures, Glamour Women of the Year, Planned Parenthood, and the Vision and Justice Project. Welcome, Tanya. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. Thank you so much, Zibi. I'm excited, finally. I know, right? I feel like this one took a while to

get scheduled and done and everything else. Okay, your memoir, Assume Nothing, a memoir of intimate

violence. Wow. This is quite a story and it's amazing you shared it. Let's back up because I

have a zillion questions. Can you please tell listeners

what your memoir is about? Well, assume nothing. It's now a story of intimate violence. It's about

my own experience with abuse and delves into also the trappings of my childhood, witnessing domestic violence as a child, and incorporates many

other people's stories too. And a big catalyst for my writing, the book, was having dozens of

people reach out to me after my story became public in The New Yorker, which is about the abusive relationship that I was

in with the former New York State Attorney General, the top law enforcement officer in New York,

Eric Schneiderman, whose name I don't even want to say right now. But what also inspired me to write

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