A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all

“A profound and riveting journey through shame and grief, A Hard Silence is, quite simply, unforgettable.” Monica Wood, author of When We Were the KennedysIn the mid 1980s, Canada'’s worst public health disaster was unfolding.

Catastrophic mismanagement of the country’’s blood supply allowed contaminated blood to be knowingly distributed nationwide, infecting close to two thousand Canadians with HIV.