Henry Carter Hull

In the tradition of Rebecca Solnit, a beautifully written, deeply intelligent, searingly honest-and ultimately hopeful-examination of sexual assault and the global discourse on rape told through the perspective of a survivor, writer, counselor, and activist After surviving gang-rape at seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the deafening silence that followed and wrote a fiery piece about the perception of rape-and rape victims-for...

National security advisor Jessica Stern reflects on her experience being raped at gunpoint by an unknown assailant when she was fifteen, discussing the assault, how it influenced her ability to feel fear, her career interviewing terrorists, her feelings about the case being reopened after more than thirty years, her role in the new investigation, and other related topics.

Chronicles the experiences of several women in Missoula, Montana, who claimed to be raped by University of Montana football players, highlighting the inequities of the law in regard to rape allegations and the treatment of rape victims and perpetrators.

A housemaid, who is sexually abused by her boss and made pregnant, is forced to give up her son in order to go on with her education. Six years later she comes back to claim her son. From Malawi comes this moving story about sexual abuse, women rights and the legal justice system in Malawi.

The author shares the story of her fifteen-year struggle to overcome the effects of a violent rape, describing her fear during and after the attack, and discussing its impact on key areas of her life, including passion, marriage, and motherhood.

An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens: Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson orders a quick and very public arrest. The case seems ironclad, especially when Anderson and the district attorney are able to add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses....

Thea thinks she has finally put her rape behind her, even though she is still haunted by nightmares, but when her son disappears, she realizes that in order to find him, she will have to face the demons she has been running from.

This "mesmerizing" novel about a crime at an elite music school " calls to mind a David Lynch film" (The New York Times). Shy piano teacher Maggie Blackburn has selflessly devoted her life and career to her students at the Forest Park Conservatory of Music in an affluent Connecticut suburb. Then a rape shakes the school's refined grounds. The violated young student, Brendan Bauer, is a timid ex-seminarian. The perpetrator, Rolfe Christensen, is the...