Half the House

First published in 1995, this "spare, poignant" memoir (Time Magazine) tells of sexual abuse by a baseball coach and resulted in the molester's arrest and cries for help from men and boys across the country.

Hoffman tells the story of a family repeatedly visited by death and suffering, of a wounded boy burdened with a terrible secret, of a father and son estranged by grief and anger. More than a boyhood memoir, this book is at once a moving elegy, an indictment of violence, a father and son story, and a moving testament to the healing power of remembering.