America is traumatized: by the pandemic that has killed more than a million of us, by the looming threat of climate change, by violence against vulnerable people, and by toxic politicians that set us against each other and undermine our democracy. But the trauma goes deeper than current events; its root is our history of racism and failure to hold the powerful accountable. How can we begin to heal the national divide and move forward? In The Reckoning, Mary L. Trump offers her unique perspective on what-and who-has damaged America, and why we have come to this critical moment. With a therapist's insight and the fearless truth-telling of a trauma survivor, she shows how to reckon with our past: not by denying it but by confronting it head-on, by listening, and by changing. Book jacket.