Reviews with content warning for Emotional abuse - Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story

After crying many times throughout the 12 days it took me to read this, I sobbed through the ending of the memoir with Chanel's victim impact statement that I had read once before and similarly sobbed to back when it was viral on Buzzfeed in 2016. This is one of if not the most important book I have ever read and there were countless moments throughout that I was left breathless and with chills down my back. This story is so important, Chanel's writing is so important, and the hard realities of the way victims, especially victims of sexual assault, are treated in the justice system are so important to recognize and call out. This book should be mandatory reading for everyone who thinks they know anything about legal justice in America, and honestly for anyone who cares about victims of sexual assault. So much of what is shown in the media is tainted by bias and by politics, and Chanel does not shy away from detailing in all the gruesome ways that her rapist, the law, the media, and society have uprooted her life and left her to pick up the pieces. Despite all this she is somehow able to find the strength and resilience within her to uplift millions of other victims who have read her statement and felt seen, felt heard, felt themselves having a voice again in a world that wouldn't listen. She and her work will live in my heart and mind for the rest of my time on earth as I navigate being a woman whose boundaries were once crossed. Thank you, Chanel.

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

chanel is a once in a generation writer. her prose is so human and yet so sophisticated, so illuminating. listening to her voice as she retold these events was an experience that can not be replicated. i felt like i knew her, like she was in the room with me. i am so comforted by her words and we all should be so honored she shared this vulnerable but resilient story with us. thank you, chanel.

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challenging emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Wonderfully written and truly inspiring. How far Chanel Miller has come is truly unbelievable and to me her book is one of the best autobiography I've read. It serves as an awakening as to how institutionalized rape culture and sexism truly are and how excruciatingly painful such trials are for the victim. That she manages to end the book on a positive note is crazy.

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