Lucky

Alice Sebold 1999

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
abuse memoir sexual assault survival

Our Take

Sebold was raped as a college freshman and wrote about it with an unflinching directness that refuses to protect the reader. The title is what the police called her — lucky, because the last girl found in that tunnel was dead. The aftermath is as devastating as the assault.

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