by Alice Sebold
Fifteen years ago, at the age of eighteen, Alice Sebold was raped. In the days just following the incident she made herself a promise that one day she would write a book about her experience. And now, on the other side of heroun addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a decade and a half of recovery, that book has arrived; a starkly honest, grippingly detailed narrative of violence and healing, suffused with poignancy, pain, and a natural wit. Already under option for television production, it is a dramatic, moving story shedding light on a subject too often shrouded in darkness.