Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was A Girl
By Jeannie Vanasco
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 7/10
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
(7/10)
357 pages
“Bold, unsettling, and timely . . . critically important.”—Laurie Halse Anderson,TIME
What’s it about?
Jeannie Vanasco is in college when her good friend Mark rapes her. Fourteen years later she decides to write a memoir about this experience. Vanesco makes the unusual decision to include Mark’s viewpoint in the story. In cases of sexual assault 8 out of 10 victims know their perpetrators. This book is an unusual exploration into sexual assault.
What did it make me think about?
Can good people do horrible things?Should I read it?
Anyone interested in the #metoo movement will be drawn to this book.
Quote-
“Mark said the assault changed the story he could tell about himself. It changed my personal narrative too- or it confirmed what I’d suspected but was afraid to admit: I cared too much about pleasing men. I didn’t stop Mark partly because I didn’t want to embarrass him. What sort of feminist acts like this? I asked myself- instead of asking, What sort of friend does what Mark did? “
“Bold, unsettling, and timely . . . critically important.”—Laurie Halse Anderson,TIME
What’s it about?
Jeannie Vanasco is in college when her good friend Mark rapes her. Fourteen years later she decides to write a memoir about this experience. Vanesco makes the unusual decision to include Mark’s viewpoint in the story. In cases of sexual assault 8 out of 10 victims know their perpetrators. This book is an unusual exploration into sexual assault.
Jeannie Vanasco is in college when her good friend Mark rapes her. Fourteen years later she decides to write a memoir about this experience. Vanesco makes the unusual decision to include Mark’s viewpoint in the story. In cases of sexual assault 8 out of 10 victims know their perpetrators. This book is an unusual exploration into sexual assault.
What did it make me think about?
Can good people do horrible things?Should I read it?
Anyone interested in the #metoo movement will be drawn to this book.
Can good people do horrible things?Should I read it?
Anyone interested in the #metoo movement will be drawn to this book.
Quote-
“Mark said the assault changed the story he could tell about himself. It changed my personal narrative too- or it confirmed what I’d suspected but was afraid to admit: I cared too much about pleasing men. I didn’t stop Mark partly because I didn’t want to embarrass him. What sort of feminist acts like this? I asked myself- instead of asking, What sort of friend does what Mark did? “
