Now Everyone Will Know: The Perfect Husband, His Shattering Secret, My Rediscovered Life

by Maggie Kneip

Overview

After a fairy-tale courtship in 1980s New York City, Maggie's young marriage shatters when her "perfect" husband--a star editor at The Wall Street Journal--is diagnosed with and dies of AIDS, leaving her with two young children in a city electrified by paranoia about the new epidemic. Devastated by his betrayal, Maggie struggles to protect herself and her children from stigma, keeping the circumstances of her husband's death a secret for nearly twenty-five years. It is only when a journey of self-discovery aligns with her children's coming of age and a new world of sexual tolerance that she can finally embrace the truth and set herself free.

With a foreword by Wall Street Journal editor Laura Landro and an afterword by Today show psychologist Dr. Dale Atkins, Now Everyone Will Know is an honest, unflinching look at the damaging nature of family secrets and an inspiring call to embrace every truth--the good, the bad, the ugly--that makes us who we are.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692537817
Publisher:	Garden Street Books
Publication date:	11/12/2015
Pages:	196
Sales rank:	317,757
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Maggie Kneip is a veteran of the publishing industry, with a career spanning more than two decades in publicity and marketing at Bertelsmann, Scholastic Inc., and Abrams Books. She has performed her one-woman show, This Is My Song, at such Manhattan clubs as the Laurie Beechman Theatre and the Metropolitan Room. Maggie is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and has a master of fine arts in dance from Sarah Lawrence College.

Editorial Reviews

"...Nothing prepared me for the transcendent power of Now Everyone Will Know." --Tony Goldwyn, actor and director "This is a book I just inhaled. I could not put it down... It will resonate with every woman who has something to hide--and that is most of us, myself included." --Magee Hickey, news reporter, WPIX-TV New York "Maggie Kneip...opens up for the first time in this stunning, beautifully written and important book." --Joanne Lipman, journalist, editor, and co-author of Strings Attached "Now Everyone Will Know is by turns surprising, heartbreaking, inspiring, and funny. Maggie Kneip's story...will move you, and it will haunt you. Like Isabel Gillies and Marco Roth, Kneip writes of the secrets families keep, and the wreckage such secrets can cause. This is an important book..." --Melissa Kirsch, author of The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything "A meditation on loss, forgiveness, and the ties that bind, Now Everyone Will Know is indelible." --Alix M. Freedman, journalist "Maggie Kneip has gathered the exquisite details of her heartbreaking journey like lilies from a field, wrapped them in words of brutal honesty, and delivered a debut memoir that serves up laughter and deep-belly sorrow in equal measure." --Katori Hall, actress, journalist, playwright, and 2010 Olivier Award winner for Broadway's The Mountaintop "...a powerful account of survival and redemption." --Byron Calame, journalist

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