[aisle] Sebold's Lucky?

[Moller, Jenna]

I’m leaning toward keeping it on the shelves, and I am going to add in a sticker or a note (any suggestions?) saying Broadwater was exonerated. So although her eyewitness testimony was wrong, her experience and trauma were real.

I read this article<https://slate.com/culture/2021/12/alice-sebold-memoir-lucky-rape-exoneration-anthony-broadwater.html> last week and this quote really stood out to me: “As I reread this memoir now, the narrator of Lucky transforms from a brave survivor summoning the will to bring her rapist to justice into an isolated, psychologically damaged girl making a desperate but delusional bid to regain her life. Sebold committed a terrible wrong in identifying Broadwater as her attacker, but it’s not the responsibility of a traumatized rape victim to fairly investigate and prosecute the person who assaulted her. That is the duty of the police and prosecutors, who failed both Sebold and Broadwater at every stage, from the moment she first reported the crime to the moment he was convicted.”

Those are my initial thoughts.

Dr. Jenna Moller (she/her)
Learning and Innovation Hub Coordinator
Lake Zurich High School

Currently Reading: Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown

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I'm aware of the exoneration but haven't read the memoir - does the book depict the trial?  Or what else does it depict that is problematic?

Thank you!

On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 9:18 AM Jennifer Siemann via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:aisle at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
I usually begin biography/memoir book talks for all freshmen reading classes in January.  I will likely share this story with them and let them know that I made the decision to pull her memoirs from circulation as a result.
I'm sure they will want to engage in further discussion, but I will encourage them to consider joining Book Club as it is a perfect platform to engage in this type of discussion.


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Subject: [aisle] Sebold's Lucky?

Hello! In light of last week's bombshell news about Alice Sebold and her memoir, what are other libraries planning to do? Are you keeping it on your memoir shelves? Sorry if I missed a thread on this already.

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