Title: A Tale of Determination
Review: By now, most of you have heard of "The Lovely Bones" ... a movie which started as a book written by Alice Sebold. If not for her quick-thinking and clever strategy of getting into the mind of her attacker, Alice would never have had the chance to write The Lovely Bones ... instead she would have become them. This book is the story of her own brutal rape as a freshman at Syracuse University, an act she tried very hard to forget but which became her driving force for justice, and then for a spiraling descent into the lowest moments of her life. If you've ever wondered about the dirty little secrets entwined in this crime, Alice reveals them all ... even the bad side of justice as we learn about the revenge rape of her friend, whose friendship she ultimately loses. As someone who was nearly raped by a man with a knife, I have always wondered "what if" I hadn't maneuvered my way out of that incident. Alice's story gives me closure, and I now realize just how "lucky" I was.
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