Book Review Know My Name

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.

Book review know my name. 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. Know my name is one of the most well written powerful and thought provoking memoirs i have ever read. 4 81 my rating.

Know my name by chanel miller. Chanel is known as emily doe in what becomes known as the stanford rape case. The story miller tells in the book begins and ends with her fight for identity.

I was found as a half naked body alone and unconscious she writes in know my name s first chapter no. Non fiction memoir autobiography true crime inspiration feminism good reads rating. And when silence and shame are gone there will be nothing to stop us.

5 the riveting powerful memoir of the woman whose statement to brock turner gave voice to millions of survivors she was known to the world. 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. 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.