“Most staggering were Sebold’s accounts of how she was treated as a rape victim—by her father who didn’t understand how it could’ve happened if the rapist didn’t have a weapon, as if she let him rape her, classmates who claimed to have personally known her, the officer who didn’t believe she was a virgin prior to the rape, her friends who turned distant, her sister who couldn’t relate, her steadfast mother who allowed her to just “be” at home to heal, the horrible ordeal the court system put her through and the defense lawyer who tried to trip her up. The world turns surreal, and it doesn’t end when the rapist is convicted, but Sebold speaks like a survivor when she writes “I live in a world where the two truths coexist; where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand.” ”
lindakays wrote this review Monday, November 12 2007.
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