Lucky
Description:
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."