CHOSEN: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood

CHOSEN recounts the author’s childhood sexual abuse by the director of a Jewish summer camp, its traumatic reverberations across his life, the winding road to recovery, and a decades-long crusade to stop a serial predator and find justice. The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Junot Diaz, said that Chosen is “a work of shattering, almost unbearable radiance. It is destined to become a classic because this is a book that will save lives.” Marci Hamilton, the CEO of CHILD USA called Chosen “a game-changing memoir that elevates the survivor story to an Odyssean trek to reclaim one’s soul.” Unflinching and compulsively readable, Mills’s memoir eloquently speaks for countless other survivors and their families. It is a rare act of consummate courage and generosity—the indelible story of a man who faces his torment and his tormentor and, in the process, is made whole. Chosen won a 2022 National Jewish Book Award.