Lucky: A Memoir (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Lucky: A Memoir Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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 ad 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."

Shelfari edited the contributors of Lucky: A Memoir Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Alice Sebold:

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Lucky: A Memoir Thursday, July 16 2009.

• This is what I remember.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Lucky: A Memoir Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Alice Sebold: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved Allison’s request to combine 2 books, including Lucky: A Memoir, Wednesday, July 15 2009.

Allison submitted a request to combine 2 books, including Lucky: A Memoir, Friday, July 3 2009.