A nod from Harborview Abuse & Trauma Center

Nationally know nonprofict supports As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back

In the early 1990s, I was at the beginning of understanding how a childhood of trauma had shaped my life. I was feeling suicidal. My therapist said, “If you need to, go to Harborview.”

That would be The Harborview Abuse & Trauma Center (HATC, now associated with The University of Washington Medical School). HATC fed, housed, and cared for me for two full days. I emerged safe and reinvigorated about working to heal. I remain convinced that had HATC not extended support and nuturance, there would be no As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back. There might not be an Alle.

Well, HATC just did me another solid: they put a note about As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back on their news feed. To date, this kindness is truly the high point of the novel’s publishing journey — exceeding even my thrill at hitting #4 on the Kindle best-seller list for Feminist LIterary Criticism. (Yes, the book is a novel. Confusion reigns. On the plus-side, the category contains the word “feminist.”)

So thank you, thank you, thank you, HATC. I can’t chant that too many times.