A review by lilcookie
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

5.0

Beyond! This memoir was beyond, and I was tearing up throughout out of sadness, despair, anger, joy, pride....the list of emotions felt go on and on. Miller writes us as readers into the narrative of her life, and it's very clear why her impact statement went viral. The words are poignant, and I appreciate the nuance within the nuance within the nuance she addressed. This is my absolute favorite quote, though Miller has many worth sharing (bolding my own):

Brock will always be the swimmer turned rapist . He was great and then he fell. Anything I do in the future will be by the victim who wrote a book . His talent precedes the tragedy. She was supposedly born in it. I did not come into existence when he harmed me. She found her voice! I had a voice, he stripped it, left me groping around blind for a bit, but I always had it. I just used it like I never had to use it before. I do not owe him my success, my becoming, he did not create me. The only credit Brock can take is for assaulting me, and he could never even admit to that.