![]() It is this gritty realism that made the original version of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak a worldwide success. Instead, she has shut down, barely speaks at all, and is on her way to a lonely, angry hell where only she knows the truth. In an authentic rendering of victim behavior, we realize that Melinda has not disclosed the sexual assault to anyone. It isn’t until the middle of the novel that we piece together the whole story. Melinda does what she’s been taught to do when something bad happens: she calls 911.īut on the first day of school, the point at which the novel begins, we see that Melinda has become a social pariah, physically and emotionally abused by her classmates because she called the cops and ruined the party. ![]() One night at an end-of-summer party, 14-year-old Melinda Sordino is raped by a high school senior. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books), 2018.Ĩ00 girls in this school and he finds me. ![]()
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