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The Gate: 
A Memoir of Love and Reflection
by Riane Eisler

The Gate is Riane Eisler’s dramatic new memoir of her years growing up in pre-Castro Cuba after a narrow escape from the Holocaust in Nazi Europe. The many readers of Eisler’s other works will learn for the first time the personal experiences in Riane Eisler's life that drove her to question, through the widening and deepening of systems science for which she has become known, “why our world has been so full of man’s inhumanity to man—and to woman.”

"Above all, The Gate is a lyrical work that will move every reader with its hope, faith, and love. The Gate is a captivating story about a girl moving toward womanhood in a difficult time. In addition to the scenes of love and loss, friendship, sexuality, and confusion that Riane Eisler describes so vividly, she also gives us a moving exploration of the ... difficulties of trying to create a new life in a strange land. It is fascinating to detect the seeds of her later wisdom, commitment, and life’s work in this memorable description of her early years."

Jean Hegland,
author of Into the Forest