i’ve been having to cope with past trauma recently, attempting exposure. i recently read “Lolita” and, between the lines of Nabokov’s beautiful prose, i found some of Lolita‘s experiences very relatable even despite the narrator’s unreliable descriptions of her.
is there a book about this subject that you would recommend? :>
by knight0fdespair
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The first Beartown book by Fredrick Backman. I’ve seen people criticize it because he’s a man writing about a woman’s rape, but as a woman I thought it captured the injustice really well. Specifically the context in this book is that the rapist is the captain of the high school hockey team in a town that’s all about hockey, and so it really dives into the social politics that happen when people would rather not believe the victim because that would have consequences they’re not ready for. The whole Beartown series is incredible but rape is the central conflict of the first book.
I read Speak in high school by Laurie Halse Anderson. It’s a good book. It’s about a girl who gets sexually assaulted at a party, so she calls the police and then becomes the outcast at her school because she brought the cops to the party.
Do you want fiction or nonfiction? There are honestly so many. I have my own favorites, and I also curate a lending library at my job (I work in the field of sexual assault/relationship abuse).
Do you want fiction or nonfiction? There are honestly so many. I have my own favorites, and I also curate a lending library at my job (I work in the field of sexual assault/relationship abuse).
Do you want fiction or nonfiction? There are honestly so many. I have my own favorites, and I also curate a lending library at my job (I work in the field of sexual assault/relationship abuse).
There are honestly so many. Do you want fiction or nonfiction?
I have my personal favorites and I also help to curate a lending library for work (I work in the sexual assault/relationship abuse field).
Deerskin by Robin McKinley. It needs content warnings for incestuous rape.