Lucky is a book by one of my favorite authors, Alice Sebold. This book is a memoir of Alice Sebolds life. It reveals how her life was hugely transformed. She tells the story of when she was an eighteen-year-old freshman in college she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near her college campus. This book is very similar to the other book that I read by her called "The Lovely Bones". In the Lovely Bones she tells the same story of her experience with being a rape vicim but instead of telling it as if it happened to her she old the story with different characters. I thought this book was eye opening and it takes you to a place like you've never been before. The book tells you the story of her experience and how she was able to deal with it but also how she has recovered and learned from it. The book explains to the readers how she was feeling in the moment but also how she was feeling after this happened to her. She tells you what life was like after. She tells her readers how hard it was to deal with and how she tried to tell her friends and family what she was feeling inside. She said that her friends and family were very compassionate towards her but they didn't exactly know what she was truly feeling or how to comfort her. They had never been through anything like this so it was difficult for her to explain the feeling in a way that felt so real. After she was able to tell people what happened she was determined to secure her attacker, arrest them, and have them convicted. This narrative is somewhat disturbing, thrilling, and most of all, inspiring. Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly. As she says in this narrative "You save yourself or you remain unsaved" I would recommend this book to anyone because it is truly an inspiring story of how she was able to recover from such a traumatic event. She didn't let this get in the way of anything she wanted to achieve in life and she fought for what she wanted. This book is a very well description of the feelings that these victims go through. It's so sincere and it really allows you to connect with her and really feel what she went through when she was assaulted. Abby Parkerson
Abby Parkerson