A Termination

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe and Publishers Weekly

“Fierce, riveting, and true.” -Claire Messud

Not my lover, not my parents, and they said I couldn't tell a friend.

In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming a poet. There was an older lover, a professor, and, with another man, an unwanted sexual encoun...