Lucky

Alice Sebold · first published 1999 · ISBN 9780684857824

Sebold recounts her experience as an 18-year-old rape survivor, from the assault through police investigation, trial, and its aftermath. The memoir details the attack itself, the conviction of her assailant, and the complex ways trauma reshaped her sense of safety, identity, and possibilities. Sebold examines both the violence of the crime and the institutional failures that followed, offering a raw portrait of victimhood without melodrama.