Name: Lucky
ISBN: 9781501171635

Alice Sebold

An acclaimed journalist shares the gripping story of her rape when she was a college freshman, achieving justice in the courtroom, and triumphing in the face of violence.

Lucky

LUCKY.

Jeannette Ordas

While I liked this book, I wavered with it being too long and drawn out and while wanting to hear more about the later struggles she brings up ("dabbling in heroin") yet quickly drops.

Stephanie Honour

Honest account of physical and emotional devastation rape spurs. Read this if you don't mind rape visuals for hundreds of pages.

Caroline Lewicki

This book was exactly what I needed.

While it's gruesome and graphic, it's honest. It's real. Sebold does not shy away from what it's like to be raped or how it feels to struggle in the aftermath.

It took me three tries to finish this book and I'm so glad I did.

Parker Jones

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Melissa M.

In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes"); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

Lucky

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