This is a brilliant book, an astonishingly fierce inquiry into the places language won't go.' - Emily Geminder, author of Dead Girls 'Brave and compelling Vanasco muddles through the silt of her thoughts to create a language for something we don't talk about.' - The Paris Review, staff pick 'A powerful memoir. I wish everyone in would read it.' - Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me 'Explodes rape culture at the level of language, shows us how we are trapped and how we might make ourselves free. 'Vanasco has written exactly the book we need right now. Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl is a necessary contribution to the wider conversation around sexual violence from a brave, new voice. Through their transcribed conversations and discussions with her closest friends, Jeannie's compelling memoir explores how the incident impacted both of their lives, while examining the culture and language surrounding sexual assault and rape. To process her conflicted feelings of betrayal and take back control, she resolves to face her trauma head-on by interviewing her rapist. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, recurring nightmares of the event that plagued her as a girl have returned. Why would a good person commit a terrible act? Fifteen years ago, Jeannie's relationship with a close friend ended in rape.
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