LUCKY

In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold`s indomitable spirit- as she struggles for understanding (“After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eye”);as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker`s arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: “You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”

全台暢銷書《蘇西的世界》作者另一力作，艾莉絲大學時的真實經歷，一個讓痛苦變成美麗的故事。作者細膩、極具張力又緊懸的筆調，帶領讀者一起經歷那段不堪的際遇，沒有逃避或怯懦，她在法庭上展現過人的勇氣與智慧，把悲憤化為許多鏗鏘有力的應答，與狡猾的辯方律師精采周旋！終於，強暴者俯首認罪。