You never forget your first: a biography of George Washington

of any kind of gender politics that may have affected his mother’s silence, nor is he alert to the possibility that her silence (more complete than his father’s) was connected to sexual trauma she may have experienced or witnessed. Harootunian’s central goals of bringing the everyday experience of genocide survivors into historical understanding and of understanding the way in which the unspoken is his heritage are both laudable ones, but they would have been better served by a more thorough exploration of extant oral and social historical literature on the subject.