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In a very memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was absolutely altered when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a area near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After showing the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I've changed in their eyes"); as her dazed relatives and buddies sometimes bungle their initiatives to provide comfort and support; so that, in the long run, she triumphs, handling through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a very narrative by changes disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the knowledge of trauma subjects even as she imparts knowledge profoundly hard-won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
