Lacy M. Johnson
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This extraordinary collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side-rooted in her own experience with sexual assault-pursues questions that strike at the heart of our national conversation about the justness of society.
In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her instant classic memoir of kidnapping and rape, when a woman asked her what she would like to happen to her rapist. Drawing from philosophy, art,...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Lacy Johnson was held prisoner in a soundproofed room in a basement apartment that her ex-boyfriend rented and outfitted for the sole purpose of raping and killing her. She escaped, but not unscathed. The Other Side is the haunting account of a first passionate and then abusive relationship, the events leading to Johnson's kidnapping and imprisonment, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. At once thrilling, terrifying, harrowing,...
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around the world offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives.