The New York Times bestselling poetic memoir and call to action from the
award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson Bestselling author Laurie
Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates
for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how
little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first
published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as
vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse,
Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply
personal stories from her life that