The main character, Melinda Sordino, struggles through her freshman year after being raped at a summer party. But now, in graphic novel form, Anderson hopes readers come away with a better understanding of the main character’s pain. Speak, a National Book Award finalist that went on to win many other awards, was also adapted into a movie starring Kristen Stewart in 2004. Now, as the great Reckoning continues to fell men in power who have previously benefitted from the silence of their alleged abuse victims, Anderson's book is being published as a reinterpreted graphic novel of the same name. But from my perspective, why are we still stuck in this toxic patriarchy bullshit?" “On the one hand, you’re supposed to be joyful because we’re having these conversations. "I’m so fucking angry,” Anderson, the author of the 1999 novel S peak told BuzzFeed News. But it took until now, as the #MeToo movement lurches forward, for a sea change in how assault victims are treated and heard to start happening. Almost 20 years ago, Laurie Halse Anderson's book about a high schooler who descends into isolation after being raped started a new conversation about how sexual assault victims deal with the pain.
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