Know My Name

A Memoir

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Chanel Miller: Know My Name (2020, Penguin Publishing Group)

384 pages

English language

Published Nov. 17, 2020 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-7352-2372-1
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5 stars (1 review)

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford’s campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on Buzzfeed, where it instantly went viral – viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time.

Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. It was the perfect case, in many ways - there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation …

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5 stars

Absolutely crushing memoir by Chanel Miller, the unnamed woman who was sexually assaulted by the All-American white dude Brock Turner. I remember reading her statement on Buzzfeed back during the trial, and being utterly shocked how Turner got off so easy with just 6 months in county jail. Now that I have read this amazingly eloquent, gut-wrenching memoir, I am even more shocked and jubilant that that judge lost his job.

Chanel is a survivor, and does not hide any of the depths of her despair that come from the assault and that are a part of her life forever. She's amazing, I am glad the world gets to know her name now.