It also introduces readers to an extraordinary writer, one whose words have already changed our world. Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shines with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the trial reveal the oppression victims face in even the best-case scenarios. It was the perfect case, in many ways-there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words.

Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time. 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. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. ' Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful.' - Washington Post I could not put this phenomenal book down.' -Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and Untamed

Chanel Miller is a philosopher, a cultural critic, a deep observer, a writer's writer, a true artist.

Instead, I found myself falling into the hands of one of the great writers and thinkers of our time. 'I opened Know My Name with the intention to bear witness to the story of a survivor. Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir 'gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter.' ( The Wrap).

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