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Know My Name
by Chanel Miller
By now, most everyone is aware that Know My Name is a memoir of the author’s experience as Emily Doe, the survivor of the highly publicized sexual assault by Stanford swimmer Brock Turner in 2015. In this book, she takes the reader through the event itself to the ER, trial, sentencing, and beyond.
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I have been waiting for months for my turn at the library with this audiobook and it finally came in. Patience is sadly not one of my virtues, but I’m happy that there are so many people who want to read/listen to this book. It’s highly important to the understanding of all aspects of sexual assault from the survivor’s perspective.
Hearing about the way she was treated in court by the defense lawyer, by the judge at sentencing, and in the court of public opinion was difficult at times. The most poignant quote for me was “My pain was never more valuable than his potential.” It’s so damn heartbreaking.
I had a lot of other feelings while reading this one, but I did ultimately find hope in it and the resulting awareness Miller’s experience has brought regarding sexual assault. It is well written and also unique in that I’ve never read another account that so wholly and honestly takes a reader through the experience of this kind of trauma. It couldn’t have been easy to write, having to relive the events all over again, but I’m so thankful she did.
As to the audiobook version, it is narrated by the author, and very well done. At the end, she reads her victim impact statement published by Buzzfeed coinciding with the sentencing back in 2016, and I could feel the emotion and conviction coming through like the events were still fresh which was both haunting and amazing.
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I have been waiting for months for my turn at the library with this audiobook and it finally came in. Patience is sadly not one of my virtues, but I’m happy that there are so many people who want to read/listen to this book. It’s highly important to the understanding of all aspects of sexual assault from the survivor’s perspective.
Hearing about the way she was treated in court by the defense lawyer, by the judge at sentencing, and in the court of public opinion was difficult at times. The most poignant quote for me was “My pain was never more valuable than his potential.” It’s so damn heartbreaking.
I had a lot of other feelings while reading this one, but I did ultimately find hope in it and the resulting awareness Miller’s experience has brought regarding sexual assault. It is well written and also unique in that I’ve never read another account that so wholly and honestly takes a reader through the experience of this kind of trauma. It couldn’t have been easy to write, having to relive the events all over again, but I’m so thankful she did.
As to the audiobook version, it is narrated by the author, and very well done. At the end, she reads her victim impact statement published by Buzzfeed coinciding with the sentencing back in 2016, and I could feel the emotion and conviction coming through like the events were still fresh which was both haunting and amazing.