Lucky
By Alice Sebold
**** stars
Lucky by Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones, is a non-fiction memoir focusing on a brutal rape. Alice Sebold was raped in her freshman year at Syracuse University. After the crime, she went to the police, where they said she was “lucky” because a woman was murdered in the same location where she was raped. The first thing we read is a graphic description of her rape; from first being beaten and threatened with a knife to being called worthless by her attacker. Sebold guides us through the struggle to cope with the fact and the struggle to feel like a normal person. Lucky shows how rape can tear anyone apart; her life was and never will be the same after being raped.
Lucky is very well written, and I recommend this book to very mature readers.
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