"Beautiful and terrible, Hodes's marvelously written story of the assassination fills the mind, heart and soul. People never forgot the event; this book is a page-turner that makes it all unforgettable again as it also explains how one shocking death illuminated so many others." - David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory on Mourning Lincoln "Revolutionary, revelatory, and deeply moving, My Hijacking starts where other memoirs stop--at the absolute limits of memory. A terrific work of suspense and a magnificent achievement that sets a new benchmark for the genre." - Nell Zink, author of Avalon "In reclaiming her personal history, Ms. Hodes has provided a lesson for us all in the power of memory both to conceal and heal." - Wall Street Journal "Extraordinary.

Hodes calls the book a 'personal history' rather than a memoir, and that is apt. If memoir brings the devices of fiction to the task of autobiography, then Hodes has brought the instruments and procedures of historical biography to her own personal narrative." - New Republic "In the richly emotional and elegantly constructed My Hijacking, Hodes puts her historian's training to use. With novel-like pacing and incredible psychological complexity, My Hijacking is an unflinching search for all the bad feelings we'd prefer not to look at." - Vox "An extraordinary task . Hodes calls the book a 'personal history' rather than a memoir, and that is apt. If memoir brings the devices of fiction to the task of autobiography, then Hodes has brought the instruments and procedures of historical biography to her own personal narrative. [Hodes] demonstrates a keen and subtle eye.

" - New Republic "My Hijacking is a tremendous account of an event now widely forgotten, and would be valuable enough for that. It is even more a fascinating meditation on what and why people remember - and what and why they forget." - New Humanist "Martha Hodes is one of the best writers in the profession of American historians. In this book she transcends the art of history as she also practices it, crafting a memoir of gripping power and courage about her "voyage into forgetting and remembering". Hodes delivers something sacred - a heroic search to "unbury" a terrible piece of her own past in records, but especially in her disconnected memory. She creates her own genre - a devotional narrative about the mystery of memory and truth, accomplished with humility and intrepid determination. [An] unforgettable book." - David W.

Blight, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom "Everything about this story is a surprise and it is told by one of the most fascinating, imaginative scholars now at work in American history." - Darryl Pinckney, author of Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan "In this singular and riveting book, Martha Hodes uses her considerable skills as a prize-winning historian to reconstruct her own experiences as a young girl aboard a hijacked plane in the Jordan desert in 1970. Taking multiple paths into the question of why she remembered so little of what she lived and felt during that traumatic event, Hodes has given us a moving and unforgettable meditation not just on history and memory, but also on family and the silences they guard." - Ada Ferrer, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuba: An American History "A poignant and perceptive study of what it takes to heal." - Publishers Weekly.