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Compassion Fatigue; A combination of being overwhelmed by the sheer number and scope of human disasters and atrocities, and numbed by the decontextualized manner in which they are presented by the media (thanks Abigail!) The story moved at a good pace, not having a single boring moment. The ending was quite nice, with a perfect mix of action and emotional moments, all the plot lines coming together in a really satisfying way. If you were to look at Daniel, you’d assume he was miserable. Since childhood he’s lived with a degenerative disease that has confined him to a wheelchair, mostly unable to speak, and he knows ultimately that this will be his death sentence. It's hard to know how someone who has not been through the R-word would take a book like this, thinking it is too exhibitionistic or histrionic, perhaps a cry for attention or a way to say "This is why I'm worthy of a memoir and your personal tragedies are not." I'm not sure how well this book would educate non-victims either since it is so personal, rather than a rape-crisis-center-type pamphlet ("what to say/not to say to a victim"). But Sebold does depict the range of reactions, and sometimes I find her responses to the "bad reactors" a little curt, like she was built more for emotional survival than I was -- or maybe it is the other way around?

Sebold, Alice (October 10, 2006). "The World Meets Alice Sebold" (Interview). Interviewed by Dave . Retrieved November 29, 2021. But while Daniel may not be living the kind of life people envy, he has a full life. He has friends and a strong support system of people who care about him, a job for a regional airline, and living in Athens, Georgia, he loves to experience the jubilation of college football and how it transforms everything. Come dicevo, la storia è proprio quello che è successo ad Alice quando aveva diciotto anni: stupro. Rape.Daniel has a nice home, decent job, and very loyal friends. He’s also unable to talk, care for himself, or move without his wheelchair. When a local college student goes missing, he may be the only witness. Explaining what he saw and being taken seriously is the only problem. The best thing about this story is there is NOT an unreliable narrator. You see, the main character Daniel isn’t trapped in his house due to some psychosis and he doesn’t think he sees something while in a drunken stupor. Nope. Daniel is just like you and me. He sees a missing poster and then thinks “hmmmmm, maybe I saw that girl” but also “or maybe the girl I saw just looked similar to that girl.” Also, while Daniel is housebound, it is due to a debilitating physical condition rather than agoraphobia or something else that could render him housebound. And although there were a couple of times where I was screaming at my Kindle . . . . Later, he sees the news report of a missing woman, Ai-Chin. He remembers "That is the girl. And that was the car." He finds himself a "witness". Anthony Broadwater served 16 years in prison for the crime, and was released in 1999. He was exonerated in 2021 after a judge found serious issues with the initial conviction. [4] [5] [6] Rape and trial [ edit ]

Fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Anxious People, and Good Eggs will fall in love with this book, and with Leitch's compelling narrative style. The unflinching hope, optimism, and intrinsic goodness seen in the first-person narrator, Daniel, will absolutely restore your faith in humanity, and the beautiful portrayals of friendship and devotion will warm your heart. This is a short book, so you’d think it would just zip along. But it’s uneven and there are parts that drag. I found the ending of the story too full of coincidences to be believable and everything comes together a little too simply. Rape is at once both a simple and complext subject. Regardless of the victim and rapist, it ties, cuts, right to the heart of our views about gender. It is impossible to step this, and it has been used to inspire terror and as a form of punishment. It should be note that before I read this book, I had read the jezebel article about You Deserve Nothing, to which Ms. Sebold is connected. My reading of this book is most likely affected by that article. A 39-year-old rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the prosecution and concerns that the wrong man had been imprisoned.One of the many annoying things about being disabled is the obligation I always feel to make you feel better about your reactions to me.” One morning Daniel sees a young woman walking down the street past his house. She does this every day. But on this day he sees her get into a car, and the next day he hears she has gone missing.

Alla fine credo che la mia più grande fortuna sia stata aver trovato le parole per raccontare la mia storia, e che quelle parole siano state ascoltate. I think a lot of people are going to LOVE this one because the merit is there--I would recommend it to some, but it just was not one that I loved. Now Variety has reported that the film adaptation has been dropped, and that Pedretti is no longer involved with the project. According to the entertainment magazine, a source close to the production said it had been abandoned after “losing its financing months ago”. But another part of me was like, dude, you magically erased this guy’s disability because it was difficult for you to write about, so... STFU. Also, everything that was being said was very generic. You could replace ableism with any other -ism and it wouldn’t have made much of a difference. It was at this point that I googled Leitch’s connection with SMA; his young son has a friend with the disease. In my opinion, nobody should write an authoritative, firsthand account about what it’s like to be part of a marginalized group, if you’re not in that group.

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I was a bit nervous for this one! We've got a middle-aged white guy writing from the POV of a protagonist with a pretty specific disability (SMA, a degenerative disease*) that he doesn't share, and I wasn't familiar with Leitch as a writer, but this was the only BOTM the month it came out that interested me, so I took a chance, and I'm glad I did! I thought the whole thing was very sensitively done, and I thought Daniel ended up being a great character. SMA is something that he lives with, but he as a person is not his disease, and he has an extremely rich inner life, and a pretty rich outer one as well. He has a great caregiver, a loving mother, a job that he can do from home that supports him well, and a great best friend. He also loves the place he lives, and he has a measure of independence that makes him feel satisfied with his life. The present-day timeline takes place in 2008. Why do you think the author chose this year for the story? How do you think the story would have differed if it were set today?