![]() It's as though Speak's Melinda made it through the fire, emerging as a warrior bent on combating rape culture. She's as witheringly sarcastic as her protagonists, yet she possesses hard-won wisdom and a mixture of honesty and tenderness. Anderson's wordplay is sophisticated, disturbing imagery underscoring her pain-a girl without eyelids, a girl submerged in cement. With this searing memoir in verse, she revisits the trauma that sliced through her and her family: the father shattered by memories of serving in World War II, the mother worn down by picking up the pieces, and the rape that buried teenage Laurie in a deep depression and laid the roots for her novel Speak. School Library Journal - Gr 8 Up-Novelist Anderson has terrified adults and earned nods of recognition from teenagers with her unflinching portrayals of sexual assault, eating disorders, and self-harm. ![]() Download a Teacher's Guide Accelerated Reader Information: Inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed in the years since, she has written a poetry memoir that shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. ![]() ![]() She has since become known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. When she was thirteen years old, Anderson was a shy, bookish girl who was raped by a boy she trusted. ![]()
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