Loved itthis is work about rape culture set in a small Irish town ... Lise does a really good job of sort of describing the dilemmas that teenage girls have to deal with
Asking for it (2015)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened to Emma that night. But sometimes people don't want to believe what is right in front of them, especially when the truth concerns the town's heroes....
- ISBN:
- 9781848664173
- Length:
- 314 pages
Genres: young adult
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Loved it
Loved itit was raw emotional and it was just absolutely brutal this is a story about rape and it's honestly one of the most Illuminating and eye openening books that I've ever read.