by Alice SeboldA real story of the author's. 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 her campus.
What propels Alice's recovery is her indomitable spirit, how she struggles to get understanding from close ones like family to friends. we see how her family and friends struggle to accept her, to make her feel comforted and supported, even though she was never the same again. And finally, she triumphs, managing through grit and confidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction.
For a long while, I don't recall in reading too much of non-fiction books. But when I started this one, it was very compelling and hard to put down. As a woman myself, rape was a issue that merely passed through my mind, without giving much thought. and i'm sure, like me, lots of woman out there, we always think we won't be that "lucky" one to get it. It was a totally different era when the tragic happened to her.
That period of time when this happened to the author, there were girls who suffered from rape yet choose not to press charges, because all they thought was to get it out of their system, forget it and start anew. To be able to stick through, to press charges, sit through trials with cross examintaions from denfense conusel, the hardship and mental torture that she has to go through. To finally be able to move on and even write a book years after, i'm really impressed.
Towards the end of the book, there was a little unexpected twist. I felt that there was no way one could escape such a past, no matter what she does. It's painful, moving and it encourages woman to stand up for themselves.
Truly, inspirational. Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of a trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard won:
'You save yourself or you remain unsaved.'
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