Lucky – Alice Sebold

Lucky – Alice Sebold (Old/Bargain)|A hard-hitting and redemptive memoir from Alice Sebold, bestselling author of The Lovely Bones. In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped ad beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold’s indomitable spirit – as she struggles for understanding (“After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes”); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker’s arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring. Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: “You save yourself or you remain unsaved.” About The Author: Alice Sebold is the author of the number one bestseller The Lovely Bones and the memoir Lucky . She lives in California with her husband, Glen David Gold.