Title: Triumphant
Review: In 1980, as a college freshman at Syracuse University, Alice Sebold was brutally raped as she walked home through a park one night, and the event profoundly marked her life from then on. In this powerful memoir, at times shocking and other times humorous, Sebold recreates the event that scarred her life in grim detail, and recalls the decision she made to find and pursue the conviction of her attacker. With the help of her poetry professor Tess Gallagher and fiction prof Tobias Wolff, she was able to identify the man who robbed her of her virginity and left her physically and emotionally damaged, and to testify at the trial that sent him to prison. The opening chapter, in which the author details the brutal attack on her, left me crying, and the remaining chapters read like a gripping suspense novel and a triumphant account of justice. A powerful, moving read.
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