Reviews with content warning for Panic attacks/disorders - Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story

I remember reading Emily Doe’s victim impact statement in my second year of university and being deeply affected by it, and yet i hesitated for a long time to read Know My Name because i didn’t think i was emotionally and mentally strong enough for it.
I don’t think i have words that can begin to describe this reading/listening experience except that it has, similar to what Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage did, altered my brain chemistry irrevocably and i’m grateful for it.
I will also say that Chanel as a narrator first, was phenomenal (this goes for her writing as well and i’m definitely looking forward to anything else she releases, fiction or nonfiction), and second added a dimension of holding the reader accountable for the trauma that she and so many others suffer. There was no room to kinda pull back and pretend this was fiction bc it was Chanel (and my g o d the few times her voice broke, i too was a sobbing mess). Anyway i’ve probably rambled enough.
If you can handle the subject matter, Know My Name is a must read and the audiobook is amazing.

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

a memorable memoir that simultaneously details the infamous stanford assault from the previously anonymous survivor's POV and serves as an incisive rebuke of not only rape culture but also the failing justice system that tramples on survivors twice, even thrice over.

miller's writing is crisp and defyingly straightforward, powerfully conveying the initial confusion after the assault, and the subsequent mix of complex emotions that followed the yrs after: disbelief, fear, disappointment, rage and ultimately, hope. this book's honestly eye-opening in how the justice system and court process negatively affect survivors' lives, and it's baffling and enraging. there are very powerful moments st certain parts of the book that point out the larger culture's hypocrisy, double standards, and reaffirm miller's and other survivors' own self and autonomy. it's some memorable reading, thats for sure.

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

This is possibly the best book I have ever read. I started this book without truly knowing what it was about, and I finished it in tears, feeling inspired. This book is painful, beautiful, heavy, and encouraging, and everyone should read this. The small moments of hope in the Swedes who saved Chanel, the doorwomen of her apartment, the old man on the bench, Alaleh, Tiffany, Lucas, and Chanel's own voice reading the audiobook were a comforting hug in a book riddled with trauma. I will never stop recommending this book to anyone I ever meet.

Favorite Quote: "It is not a question of if you will survive this, but what beautiful things await you when you do."

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3.75

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4.75

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