“Transformative and illuminating. Through every agonizing revelation, Amy Griffin refuses to pave over her pain, opting instead to embrace the entirety of it. This is a powerful story of what can happen when self-compassion replaces fear as the governing force of one’s life.”
New York Times bestselling author of Know My Name
"The Tell is a beautiful account of the journey of courage it takes to face the truth of one’s past, and the beneficial role that a combination of skillful therapy and psychedelics can play in putting one’s life in order."
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score
"Amy Griffin's courageous, generous memoir is both a reckoning with a terrible, all-too-common experience...and a searching and empathetic inquiry into the meanings of goodness, self-blame, and forgiveness."
New York Times bestselling author of A Little Life (on Instagram)
“I started The Tell while sitting in my car, after an appointment, and literally spent the morning in the parking lot because I couldn’t stop reading. What a generous story. What beautiful writing, crafting and pacing. And what a heart Amy Griffin has. Your own heart will break, and mend, as you read her story.”
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet, and host of The Quiet Life Community
"Our minds may repress, but our bodies keep the score. The Tell by Amy Griffin is an honest book that will help us trust that wisdom. There is no better guide than Griffin, whose story proves it is what we do with our experience that matters."
"An extraordinary memoir paced like an expertly plotted thriller, each page unravelling the mystery of who Amy is and what happened to her. The moment the truth is revealed stopped my breath in my throat. Amy's story enraged me, shocked me, broke my heart and put it back together again—I will be thinking about this book for a long time."
New York Times bestselling author of Bright Young Women
"Lyrical...though it would sound strange to describe the account of something this dark as 'good,' Griffin has indeed validated her experience with a well-written and moving book. An important, wholly believable account of how long-buried but profoundly formative experiences finally emerge."
“Amy Griffin has done something remarkable: She’s turned life-shattering trauma into a life-giving gift. The Tell is the most powerful memoir I’ve read in years. It’s the rare story that will liberate you from shame, empower you to stop cycles of abuse, and make it safer for you to tell the truth. It broke my heart and still left me filled with hope.”
“Overflowing with heart and determination, The Tell is the story of a journey—the day-by-day, step-by-step, hard-won push through harrowing emotional terrain. Here is someone moving steadily toward freedom and spreading so much light along the way. In finding the words to tell her story, in showing what it is to trust herself, Amy Griffin shines a path forward through the dark.”