A review by deszra
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring

5.0

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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