Barbara Shoup

The Unbinding

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Wendy Vergoz’s The Unbinding captures the loneliness and isolation, the rage and confusion of an abusive marriage in vivid, disquieting imagery that at times piles up and contradicts and interrupts itself, as if the words themselves are trying to understand what happened to her. Yet, throughout, she finds a blessed thread of grace in small moments with her children and in the natural world. The urgency, rawness, courage, and luminosity in Vergoz’s story of abuse are great and necessary gifts, not only to those who have experienced it, but to those of us who love them and want to support them in reclaiming their lives.”