BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

    (By Jeannie Vanasco)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 21 MB (21,080 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 584 times
    Last checked 8 Hour ago!
    Author Jeannie Vanasco
    “Book Descriptions: Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her.

    When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides—after fourteen years of silence—to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person. "It's the least I can do," he says.

    Jeannie details her friendship with Mark before and after the assault, asking the brave and urgent question: Is it possible for a good person to commit a terrible act? Jeannie interviews Mark, exploring how rape has impacted his life as well as her own. She examines the language surrounding sexual assault and pushes against its confines, contributing to and deepening the #MeToo discussion.

    Exacting and courageous, Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl is part memoir, part true crime record, and part testament to the strength of female friendships—a recounting and reckoning that will inspire us to ask harder questions and interrogate our biases. Jeannie Vanasco examines and dismantles long-held myths of victimhood, discovering grace and power in this genre-bending investigation into the trauma of sexual violence.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Abandon Me: Memoirs

    ★★★★★

    Melissa Febos

    Book 1

    Girlhood

    ★★★★★

    Melissa Febos

    Book 1

    To Be a Man: Stories

    ★★★★★

    Nicole Krauss

    Book 1

    Sex Object: A Memoir

    ★★★★★

    Jessica Valenti

    Book 1

    Nobody Is Ever Missing

    ★★★★★

    Catherine Lacey

    Book 1

    Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

    ★★★★★

    Matthew Salesses

    Book 1

    Something New Under the Sun

    ★★★★★

    Alexandra Kleeman

    Book 1

    Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

    ★★★★★

    Anna Mehler Paperny

    Book 1

    Sierpień

    ★★★★★

    Paweł Sołtys

    Book 1

    Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

    ★★★★★

    Sophie Gilbert

    Book 1

    Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

    ★★★★★

    Sarah Manguso

    Book 1

    We Love You, Bunny (Bunny, #2)

    ★★★★★

    Mona Awad

    Book 1

    Ten się śmieje, kto ma zęby

    ★★★★★

    Zyta Rudzka