She Writes Press, October 5, 2021

“These Walls Between Us is a powerful book with an important lesson that we all must learn in trying to understand others.”

—Reverend John Reynolds, author of The Fight for Freedom:
A Memoir of My Years in the Civil Rights Movement

“A tender, honest, cringeworthy, and powerful read.”

 —Debby Irving, Author of Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

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"I've never read a memoir that is so consistently courageous."

—George Lakey, Author of Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice

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“Wendy Sanford is doing the work that only she can do!”

 —Byllye Avery, Founder, Black Women's Health Imperative. 

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I wrote These Walls Between Us in order to reflect on, and honor, the still-evolving sixty-year connection between Mary Norman and myself, and to chronicle how we came to call each other friends. Though we are close in age, we met in my mother’s kitchen; Mary was the Black “help” and I the privileged white daughter. Years later, my work as a co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a widely-selling resource on women’s health and sexuality, prompted me to face my unexamined biases around class and race. These Walls Between Us offers lessons from my oft-stumbling efforts, as a white woman, to see Mary more fully and to become a more dependable friend.

Nautilus Awards 2022 ("Better Books for a Better World"): SILVER in Memoir

Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2022: Finalist for Grand Prize and First Horizon Award, Honorable Mention
  in Memoir

Chanticleer International Book Awards 2021: Short Listed for Hearten Book Award for Uplifting and
   Inspirational Non-Fiction

Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition 2021: A Notable 100 Book

Best Book Awards 2021: Finalist in Multicultural Nonfiction