I give all a fair warning, this is not a happy book, you will not smile or laugh while reading it but cringe. From the first sentence I knew this was going to be a brutal book, when the protagonist reviles in detail her rape. What made this book even more gripping is that it is based on a true story, on when Alice Sebold herself was raped in a park off-campus when she was walking back one night.
Sebold tells her story bluntly where at times I found it difficult to read. I knew before I read this book that it was based on true events and not made up, so it made the book pretty traumatic. An interesting thin about this book was reading about what happened to Sebold after the rape, how she dealt with her family and friends, even strangers. I liked how Sebold's first line in the book was: “This is what I remember…”, and her last line suggests: “This is what I’ll never forget…”. This was a difficult story to read but said things that needed to be said and heard to people who have been raped and those who fortunately haven't.
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