Prisoner of Her Past

"[Reich's] book is a compelling and compassionate memoir, a moving story of a loving relationship between a mother and son." —Booklist

"All through her suffering, rage and terror, [Howard Reich's mother] kept things together for her husband and children as best she could. Now Reich can only do what a good son should do—honor his father and his mother, in the best and perhaps the only way possible." —Carolyn See, Washington Post 

"A tender exploration of a family that reverses its silences. Delivered with precision and guided by emotion, the work avoids melancholy, instead presenting a breathtaking familial panorama that is studded with loss, pain, denial, and, ultimately, honor." —Utne Reader 

"Memory runs deep, and it is real, and the mind is not capacious enough to heal itself from its own worst scars. The only thing left is to prevent the atrocity in the first place. Reich's book gives us yet another reason to mourn the tragedies we have set upon ourselves—and the tragedies we fail to prevent." —Beth Kephart, Chicago Tribune