More than 20 years after the success of her groundbreaking YA novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson is raising her voice with…
. The author’s powerful memoir reveals her own history as a survivor of sexual assault through poetry that spans from hurt, detached, depressed, raw, angry, accepting, and every other emotion in between.is getting an all-new look for its paperback release this spring — and EW has your exclusive first look at the drastically different cover.
Anderson first wrote about sexual assault and its aftermath in the groundbreaking, award-winning fictional novel back in 1999. It helped shatter the taboo around the important issue and inspired a national conversation about rape culture and consent for young people, long before the cultural shift of recent years.
I hope to help people, and this is already happening, for people to recognize that they can be blunt and honest about what happened to them. There is no shame in having that hurt any more than there’s shame about having their house robbed. And is a crossover book for both young people and adults. Older people need to learn how to be able to talk about this. This makes for the perfect book club book in a community of friends, family, people close to you to open the door for these conversations.
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