A review by sydneyah
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

 

chanel miller puts indescribable thoughts and feelings into words. it is so extremely clear how much she cares about bringing comfort to survivors through her writing. 

 

“i always wondered why survivors understood other survivors so well. why, even if the details of our attacks vary, survivors can lock eyes and get it without having to explain. perhaps it is not the particulars of the assault itself that we have in common, but the moment after; the first time you are left alone. something slipping out of you. where did i go. what was taken. it is terror swallowed inside silence. an unclipping from the world where up was up and down was down. this moment is not pain, not hysteria, not crying. it is your insides turning to cold stones. it is utter confusion paired with knowing. gone is the luxury of growing up slowly. so begins the brutal awakening.”