The Unbinding

The Unbinding chronicles a womans experience of finding her way through and out of a twenty-year marriage rooted in domestic violence as well as her continued unbinding from trauma. The abuse she survives is particularly insidious due to the fact that she is married to a pastor and thus it includes not just emotional psychological physical and sexual abuse but also spiritual abuse. Settings and images of everyday life provide a gateway into a remarkable journey the telling of which is vivid and dark yet ultimately hopeful. The woman at the center of this journey survives due to her children--a manifestation to her of grace in the world--and her grit.