"How can you go on living when you've now been lived in? When you've been invaded? How can you tell a joke and enjoy laughter without hearing the one laugh that owns every root in you now? How can you accept air into your lungs from the very perennials whose life you've taken?" 

A violent serial rapist named Maude is on the loose as she hunts for men in bars, online chatrooms, and in their homes. There are no leads as the men face turmoil, doubt from the police, alienation from their loved ones, and media sensation. They soon join together to share their stories and support one another. 

Wow. This book is unlike anything I have ever read. It is vulnerable, powerful, emotional, and thought-provoking. It explores sexual violence and the way rape culture is viewed through a societal lens. The way people want to understand and advocate for justice, while at the same time exploiting the victims for likes/views. The denial and disbelief that victims face. Specifically in this case, male victims as "men can't be raped". 

The story follows alternating POVs of four male victims. It includes mixed media, diary entries, and poetry, which made for a profound reading experience given the context. The prose is stunning and invokes so many emotions. 

This book is very important and truly powerful in its message. I don't think I will ever forget it. 

"How can you end your own suffering, without ending completely? How can you accept touch? Or walk through your life, a lived wound, forever avoiding some terrible, inevitable wind."