A young girl is abused by her Catholic priest. For years she tells no one, striving to meet her parents and teachers’ expectations that she be a Good Girl—passive, obedient, and devout.

When she learns as an adult that she was not his only victim—there were dozens more—the ensuing criminal trial threatens to overwhelm her. Disassembled by the abuse, she finds community working in an underground hospice for men dying from the still-taboo HIV-AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. In their midst, she recognizes the damage wrought by shame and silence, but she also finds incredible courage and love.

A profound story of finding your voice and healing what feels irrevocably broken.

Renée D. Bondy taught in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, where she facilitated courses on queer activism, women and religion, and the history of women’s movements. Her writing has appeared in Herizons, Bitch, Bearings Online, and the Humber Literary Review. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. Renée lives in Chatham, Ontario. [non]disclosure is her first novel.

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"A superb work! [non]disclosure by Renée D. Bondy speaks to us of the struggle of the individual to maintain hope in the face of institutional self-interest and actionable blindness. In her first novel, Bondy has accomplished something quite astonishing: a compelling meditation on the power of kindness told in an engrossing narrative with palpably real characters."

André Narbonne, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated Lucien and Olivia