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In her new memoir, Jeannie Vanasco gets 'A Silent Treatment' from her mom

NPR's Book of the Day

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Emotional Pain of Social Ostracism

Jeannie discusses research showing ostracism activates brain areas like physical abuse and compares the silence's pain to her father's death.

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