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A carregar... Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoirpor Jeannie Vanasco
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. TBH the synopsis doesn't really do the book justice. There were a lot of nuances that I think a lot of popular media portrayals of sexual assault don't cover. I highlighted a lot. It felt very real and very honest. The stream of consciousness writing style allowed Jeannie to give a brutally honest account of her feelings. This book can be so helpful for survivors who don't identify with the mainstream sexual assault narrative. Also side note, but the way Mark kept interrupting her was driving me crazy. Maybe it's just me trying to villainize the person he turned into but like, screw him. “This story isn’t original, and that’s the story. Sexual assault happens all the time. What makes this story sort of unusual is we’re having the conversation. I don’t think that happens very often” - Jeannie Vanasco I came across this book at the library and was immediately intrigued by the premise: Jeannie was raped by a close friend of hers when she was 19, and years later chooses to talk with him regarding his side of the story. During this process, Jeannie also struggles with her feelings regarding her choice, and struggles with recurring nightmares about the assault, which sadly isn’t the only one that has occurred in her life. As a sexual assault survivor, there were many parts of this book that were difficult for me to read. Jeannie and I shared many of the same feelings, although I lack the courage to confront my rapist as she did. I even grew up twenty minutes away from her hometown, and recognized many of the places she mentioned. Jeannie openly struggles with her feelings as a feminist-should she be made to feel a certain way or should she feel a certain way for giving “Mark” a voice? The way the book is written made me feel as if I was reading Jeannie’s diary, or eavesdropping on her conversations. Jeannie doesn’t censor herself or her feelings, which is why parts of this book could be considered “‘messy” to some, but I appreciated it even more for this. Though we are given information about “Mark”, she allows us to draw our own conclusions about his character. This will not be an easy book to read, but it is an important one. It is a brutal commentary on the sexual violence women & men face, the failures of the justice and education system, and toxic masculinity. It’s an important reminder of the #metoo movement and how hard we need to keep fighting on behalf of sexual violence victims. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML: A New York Times Editors' Choice and Best Book of the Year at TIME, Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, and Electric Literature Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides??after fourteen years of silence??to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person. Jeannie details her friendship with Mark before and after the assault, asking the brave and urgent question: Is it possible for a good person to commit a terrible act? Jeannie interviews Mark, exploring how rape has impacted his life as well as her own. Unflinching and courageous, Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl is part memoir, part true crime record, and part testament to the strength of female friendships??a recounting and reckoning that will inspire us to ask harder questions, push towards deeper understanding, and continue a necessary and long overdue conversat Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Jeannie was sexually assaulted (by some legal definitions she was raped) by a good friend of hers, aka Mark, when she was 19 years old. 14 years later, she tracks him down, and basically attempts to get his side of the story, and to process the event in her own mind.
There's a lot of things about the book that surprised me.
In the end, I'm not completely sure what conclusion the reader was supposed to draw, and I liked that the author allowed for that. Personally, I think this book would be amazing for a book club just because there's a lot to discuss and unpack, but I'm sure some people might find it too distressing. I don't know. I think these things need to be discussed more openly. Kudos to the author for taking on the challenge.
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