Lucky

From the author of the bestselling "The Lovely Bones." Here, in a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed, when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutallyraped and beaten in a park near campus. The chief ingredient of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding; as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. A disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring book. 254p.