“You have to wait and see how your life will unfold.”

This book blew me away. Chanel is a beautiful and insightful writer and I'm grateful she had the courage to bless us with this wonderful, introspective, and informative book. 
While it is primarily about her ordeal following her assault, it is also a discussion on rape culture, the villainization of the victim and the victimisation of the rapist, the emotional; mental; and financial toll on both the victim and their loved ones, the ineptitude of the judicial system (and other institutions who choose to be willfully ignorant), and many other points all discussed with grace and proficiency. 
I'm so happy this book exists and I'm so happy to have come out of it understanding more about an experience that is pervasive but still intentionally silenced. 

“We may spend half our time wandering around, wondering what we're even doing here, why it's worth the effort. But living is an incredible thing, just to have been here, to have felt, if only briefly, the volume and depth of others' empathy.”