BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:91f6725b-b840-49c5-a00d-39b74a34a934@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261011T234122Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T200000 SUMMARY:Thurs 11/19 @ 6 DESCRIPTION:Nov 19th 2026 Events @ Labyrinth Books Thurs 11/19 @ 6:00PM L abyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street Thomas Trezise is joined in conversat ion with André Benhaïm. Beginning Again: A Spouse’s Story of Life after Trauma recounts the struggle to rebuild a life after trauma with emotion al clarity and psychological insight. Thomas Trezise\, a professor of Fr ench\, was working on a book one morning in southern France when his wif e\, on a walk in the surrounding countryside\, was sexually assaulted an d nearly murdered. Here Trezise revisits the challenges of supporting a survivor when his own life was forever changed by the event. He closely examines secondary trauma\, in which grief\, fear\, and anger carry no c lear public recognition and little permission to speak. While drawing at tention to the overlooked distress of those who stand by survivors\, he questions his own masculinity in a world where the vast majority of sex crimes are committed by men. With emotional clarity and psychological in sight\, Beginning Again recounts the struggle to rebuild a life despite marital and social strains\, professional turmoil\, and the unfamiliarit y of the French legal system. And it highlights how post-traumatic exper ience can change the very stories told to make sense of it\, describing the author’s joy at becoming a father and his discovery\, through the cu lture of Martinique and Guadeloupe\, of a renewed relationship with Fran ce. “Thomas Trezise's graceful and deeply honest examination of how he r esponded to a brutal assault on his wife—his internal conflicts\, self-b lame\, fear\, and anger—will be of immense value to other men who have e xperienced the same horror. A powerful argument that violence against wo men is not a woman's problem alone\, but one that belongs to us all.”—He len Benedict\, author of Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes “This is a man’s story and a husband’s story. It begins when the author ’s wife is raped\, strangled\, and left for dead in a ravine in the Fren ch countryside. The assault has never stopped reverberating in his mind. Words like ‘trigger’ and ‘resilience’ can’t begin to convey the depth o f feeling and self-knowledge Trezise shares with his readers as he watch es himself\, over three decades\, grow to understand his own part in the ir shared trauma and recovery. What do we owe to our partners and to our selves? How are intellectual passions sparked by life experience? Trezis e brings to this story an uncompromising honesty and emotional rigor. Hi s essential book builds hope amidst the ruins.”—Alice Kaplan\, author of French Lessons: A Memoir “ Beginning Again opened my mind and my heart to dimensions of human existence that had escaped me. By exploring his i nner life as the husband of a rape survivor\, the father of a son\, a sc holar\, and a man questioning the norms of masculinity\, Thomas Trezise enables us to both feel and understand the reach of secondary trauma. At once necessary and fully realized\, his memoir generates deep comprehen sion as well as profound emotion.”—Stéphane Gerson\, author of Disaster Falls: A Family Story Thomas Trezise is Professor of French at Princeton University and author of Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Hol ocaust Survivor Testimony. This event is co-sponsored by Princeton Unive rsity’s Department of French & Italian\, Princeton’s Humanities Council\ , and Labyrinth Books. Contributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the spe cific program\, speakers or views presented.\n\nMore info: https://www.l abyrinthbooks.com/events/2026/trezise-benhaim/\n\nhttps://findlocal.comm unity/event/91f6725b-b840-49c5-a00d-39b74a34a934 LOCATION:Bridges Book Center\, 1480 Main Street\, Rahway\, NJ 07065 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/91f6725b-b840-49c5-a00d-39b74a34a93 4 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR