Book Review Know My Name

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Book review know my name. Know my name author. Chanel miller says know my name as she reflects on her assault by brock turner at points it is hard to read miller s devastating immersive memoir and breathe at the same time. I was found as a half naked body alone and unconscious she writes in know my name s first chapter no.

4 81 my rating. Know my name by chanel miller. 4 of 5 stars know my name by chanel miller is a poignant memoir about a sexual assault survivor whose case gains enormous media attention as she struggles to find her voice amid the noise.

In 2015 the stanford rape case made national headlines and captivated social media causing many debates on campus rape culture drinking and consent. Chanel is known as emily doe in what becomes known as the stanford rape case. This book follows chanel miller determined to reclaim her identity after being erased and described as an unconscious intoxicated woman or simply brock turner s victim the barricades that held us down will not work anymore.

Media outlets fixated on brock turner s swim records economic background and career potential bringing up real discussions on. My history was blackouts one through five know my name stands unapologetically large asking others to reckon with its author s dazzling undiminishable presence. Know my name by chanel miller the young woman whom brock turner the so called stanford swimmer assaulted in 2015 is one of the rescued a memoir by a writer who dived down into the darkness.

And when silence and shame are gone there will be nothing to stop us.