Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller (English) Paperback Book

Description: Know My Name by Chanel Miller Originally published in hardcover in 2019 by Viking. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A NEW YORK TIMES READERS CHOICE BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURYBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in PEOPLE | NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | WASHINGTON POST | NPR | PARADE | TIME |GLAMOUR | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | MARIE CLAIRE | ELLE | FORTUNE"Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful."—Washington PostUniversally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Millers breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life.Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic. Author Biography Chanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir, KNOW MY NAME, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and People, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym, "Emily Doe." Review WINNER OF THE RIDENHOUR BOOK PRIZE / THE DAYTON LITERARY PRIZE / THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in PEOPLE | NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | WASHINGTON POST | NPR | PARADE | TIME | GLAMOUR | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | MARIE CLAIRE | ELLE | FORTUNE | LIBRARY JOURNAL | KIRKUS | DAILY MAIL| BALTIMORE SUN | SHE READS | MAN REPELLER | BOOKRIOT | SPY.COM "She has written a memoir that converts the ongoing experience of sexual assault into literature...Beautiful.""The Atlantic"To tell her story at all is enough…the fact that Miller tells it beautifully, caring enough for her reader to spin golden sentences from her pain, is a gift on top of a gift." "Vogue"Know My Name is an act of reclamation. On every page, Miller unflattens herself, returning from Victim or Emily Doe to Chanel, a beloved daughter and sister...Know My Name marks the debut of a gifted young writer. Millers words are purpose. They are maps. And she is a treasure who has prevailed.""Jennifer Weiner, The New York Times"In this powerful, gutsy memoir, Miller—the sexual assault survivor in the Stanford case—reclaims her name and her story."—The New York Times Book Review"Know My Name is a blistering, beautifully written account of a courageous young womans struggle to hold a sexual predator accountable. Stand back, folks: This book is going to give a huge blast of momentum to the #MeToo movement.""Jon Krakauer "She writes exquisitely of her pain, makes us feel every fragment of it, but also expounds on the kindness that nourished her spirit…Miller matters. Readers will see every victim matters." "USA Today "In a perfect world, Know My Name would be required reading for every police officer, detective, prosecutor, provost and judge who deals with victims of sexual assault." "LA Times"Miller is a gifted storyteller...Know her name, know her voice.""The New Yorker"Miller provides one of the most moving and humanizing depictions of sexual assault I have ever read…Know My Name features the kind of intimate, coming-of-age storytelling that you dont find in a typical story about a crime and its aftermath. She lets us see her in quiet moments and jubilant ones, in moments of doubt and moments of strength…In giving us the gift of knowing her, Miller has written a singular testament to the human cost of sexual violence, and a powerful reminder of why we fight." "The Cut "In a world that asks too many survivors to keep their experiences to themselves and shrink their suffering to preserve someone elses potential, Know My Name stands unapologetically large, asking others to reckon with its authors dazzling, undiminishable presence. To read it, in spite of everything, inspires hope."—The Guardian"Id never read anything that so vividly paints the bewildering maze that a sexually assaulted woman faces...Know My Name raises crucial questions about the way we treat sexual assault and, indeed, sex itself." "Katha Pollitt, The Nation "In its rare honesty and in its small details, Know My Name is both an open wound and a salve, a quiet cry and the loudest scream…Know My Name is more than an indictment, though it is a successful and moving one. It is also an outstretched hand, inviting you to fight alongside her.""Elle "Millers memoir is beautifully written, underscored by simmering indignation." "Jezebel "Compelling and essential…Miller reminds us that our stories are worth telling, that the names and the lives attached to those names matter." "SF Chronicle"Triumphant...Know My Name evokes a woman whose spirit hasnt been broken—a study in what it means to strike back, not in revenge, but in reclamation."—O Magazine"A stunning book...beautifully written."—Teen Vogue"Unputdownable…A much-needed memoir giving voice to those who must be heard. Millers writing stands apart."—Library Journal (starred review) "Millers new memoir echoes her powerful victim-impact statement… Its a beautiful revealing self-portrait. Its funny and its heartbreaking, and its an inspiration. Theres just no other way to say it: the writing is exquisite." "The Daily Beast"Millers memoir, Know My Name, gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emiy Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." "The Wrap"Miller distinguishes herself not only for her resilience and fortitude, but also for her power of expression. She possesses extraordinary gifts as a writer.""The National Book Review "Miller makes a powerful case for overhauling a system that retraumatizes victims of sexual violence even in successful cases, perpetuating the feedback loop that discourages victims from coming forward to seek justice." "Mother Jones Review Quote BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in PEOPLE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW WASHINGTON POST NPR PARADE TIME GLAMOUR CHICAGO TRIBUNE MARIE CLAIRE ELLE FORTUNE LIBRARY JOURNAL KIRKUS DAILY MAIL BALTIMORE SUN SHE READS MAN REPELLER BOOKRIOT SPY.COM "She has written a memoir that converts the ongoing experience of sexual assault into literature...Beautiful. " The Atlantic "To tell her story at all is enough...the fact that Miller tells it beautifully, caring enough for her reader to spin golden sentences from her pain, is a gift on top of a gift." Vogue " Know My Name is an act of reclamation. On every page, Miller unflattens herself, returning from Victim or Emily Doe to Chanel, a beloved daughter and sister... Know My Name marks the debut of a gifted young writer. Millers words are purpose. They are maps. And she is a treasure who has prevailed." Jennifer Weiner, The New York Times "In this powerful, gutsy memoir, Miller--the sexual assault survivor in the Stanford case--reclaims her name and her story." -- The New York Times Book Review " Know My Name is a blistering, beautifully written account of a courageous young womans struggle to hold a sexual predator accountable. Stand back, folks: This book is going to give a huge blast of momentum to the #MeToo movement." Jon Krakauer "She writes exquisitely of her pain, makes us feel every fragment of it, but also expounds on the kindness that nourished her spirit...Miller matters. Readers will see every victim matters." USA Today "In a perfect world, Know My Name would be required reading for every police officer, detective, prosecutor, provost and judge who deals with victims of sexual assault." LA Times "Miller is a gifted storyteller...Know her name, know her voice." The New Yorker " Miller provides one of the most moving and humanizing depictions of sexual assault I have ever read... Know My Name features the kind of intimate, coming-of-age storytelling that you dont find in a typical story about a crime and its aftermath. She lets us see her in quiet moments and jubilant ones, in moments of doubt and moments of strength...In giving us the gift of knowing her, Miller has written a singular testament to the human cost of sexual violence, and a powerful reminder of why we fight." The Cut "In a world that asks too many survivors to keep their experiences to themselves and shrink their suffering to preserve someone elses potential, Know My Name stands unapologetically large, asking others to reckon with its authors dazzling, undiminishable presence. To read it, in spite of everything, inspires hope." -- The Guardian "Id never read anything that so vividly paints the bewildering maze that a sexually assaulted woman faces... Know My Name raises crucial questions about the way we treat sexual assault and, indeed, sex itself." Katha Pollitt, The Nation "In its rare honesty and in its small details, Know My Name is both an open wound and a salve, a quiet cry and the loudest scream... Know My Name is more than an indictment, though it is a successful and moving one. It is also an outstretched hand, inviting you to fight alongside her." Elle "Millers memoir is beautifully written, underscored by simmering indignation." Jezebel " Compelling and essential...Miller reminds us that our stories are worth telling, that the names and the lives attached to those names matter." SF Chronicle "Triumphant... Know My Name evokes a woman whose spirit hasnt been broken--a study in what it means to strike back, not in revenge, but in reclamation." --O Magazine "A stunning book...beautifully written." --Teen Vogue "Unputdownable...A much-needed memoir giving voice to those who must be heard. Millers writing stands apart." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Millers new memoir echoes her powerful victim-impact statement... Its a beautiful revealing self-portrait. Its funny and its heartbreaking, and its an inspiration. Theres just no other way to say it: the writing is exquisite." Th e Daily Beast "Millers memoir, Know My Name , gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emiy Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." The Wrap "Miller distinguishes herself not only for her resilience and fortitude, but also for her power of expression. She possesses extraordinary gifts as a writer." The National Book Review "Miller makes a powerful case for overhauling a system that retraumatizes victims of sexual violence even in successful cases, perpetuating the feedback loop that discourages victims from coming forward to seek justice." Mother Jones Excerpt from Book I N T R O D U C T I O N The fact that I spelled subpoena, suhpeena, may suggest I am not qualified to tell this story. But all court transcripts are at the worlds disposal, all news articles online. This is not the ultimate truth, but it is mine, told to the best of my ability. If you want it through my eyes and ears, to know what it felt like inside my chest, what its like to hide in the bathroom during trial, this is what I provide. I give what I can, you take what you need. In January 2015, I was twenty-two, living and working in my home- town of Palo Alto, California. I attended a party at Stanford. I was sexually assaulted outside on the ground. Two bystanders saw it, stopped him, saved me. My old life left me, and a new one began. I was given a new name to protect my identity: I became Emily Doe. In this story, I will be calling the defense attorney, the defense . The judge, the judge . They are here to demonstrate the roles they played. This is not a personal indictment, not a clapback, a blacklist, a rehashing. I believe we are all multidimensional beings, and in court, it felt harmful being f lattened, characterized, mislabeled, and vilified, so I will not do the same to them. I will use Brocks name, but the truth is he could be Brad or Brody or Benson, and it doesnt matter. The point is not their individual significance, but their commonality, all the peo- ple enabling a broken system. This is an attempt to transform the hurt inside myself, to confront a past, and find a way to live with and incor- porate these memories. I want to leave them behind so I can move forward. In not naming them, I finally name myself. My name is Chanel. I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am. However, I am not Brock Turners victim . I am not his anything. I dont belong to him. I am also half Chinese. My Chinese name is Zhang Xiao Xia, which translates to Little Summer . I was named summer because: I was born in June. Xia is also Chinas first dynasty. I am the first child. "Xia" sounds like "sha." Chanel. The FBI defines rape as any kind of penetration. But in California, rape is narrowly defined as the act of sexual intercourse. For a long time I refrained from calling him a rapist, afraid of being corrected. Legal definitions are important. So is mine. He filled a cavity in my body with his hands. I believe he is not absolved of the title simply because he ran out of time. The saddest things about these cases, beyond the crimes themselves, are the degrading things the victim begins to believe about her being. My hope is to undo these beliefs. I say her, but whether you are a man, transgender, gender-nonconforming, however you choose to identify and exist in this world, if your life has been touched by sexual violence, I seek to protect you. And to the ones who lifted me, day by day, out of darkness, I hope to say thank you. 1. I AM SHY. In elementary school for a play about a safari, everyone else was an animal. I was grass. Ive never asked a question in a large lecture hall. You can find me hidden in the corner of any exercise class. Ill apologize if you bump into me. Ill accept every pamphlet you hand out on the street. Ive always rolled my shopping cart back to its place of ori- gin. If theres no more half-and-half on the counter at the coffee shop, Ill drink my coffee black. If I sleep over, the blankets will look like theyve never been touched. Ive never thrown my own birthday party. Ill put on three sweaters before I ask you to turn on the heat. Im okay with losing board games. I stuff my coins haphazardly into my purse to avoid holding up the checkout line. When I was little I wanted to grow up and become a mascot, so Id have the freedom to dance without being seen. I was the only elementary school student to be elected as a conflict manager two years in a row; my job was to wear a green vest every recess, patrolling the playground. If anyone had an unsolvable dispute, theyd find me and Id teach them about I-Messages such as I feel when you . Once a kindergartner approached me, said everyone got ten seconds on the tire swing, but when she swung, kids counted one cat, two cat, three cat , and when the boys swung, they counted one hippopotamus, two hippopotamus , longer turns. I declared from that day forward everyone would count one tiger, two tiger . My whole life Ive counted in tigers. I introduce myself here, because in the story Im about to tell, I begin with no name or identity. No character traits or behaviors assigned to me. I was found as a half-naked body, alone and unconscious. No wallet, no ID. Policemen were summoned, a Stanford dean was awakened to come see if he could recognize me, witnesses asked around; nobody knew who I belonged to, where Id come from, who I was. My memory tells me this: On Saturday, January 17, 2015, I was living at my parents house in Palo Alto. My younger sister, Tiffany, a junior at Cal Poly, had driven three hours up the coast for the long weekend. She usually spent her time at home with friends, but occasionally shed give some of that time to me. In the late afternoon, the two of us picked up her friend Julia, a Stanford student, and drove to the Arastradero Preserve to watch the sun spill its yolk over the hills. The sky darkened, we stopped at a taqueria. We had a heated debate about where pigeons sleep, argued about whether more people fold toilet paper into squares (me) or simply crumple it (Tiffany). Tiffany and Julia mentioned a party they were going to that evening at Kappa Alpha on the Stanford campus. I paid little attention, ladling green salsa into a teeny plastic cup. Later that night, my dad cooked broccoli and quinoa, and we reeled when he presented it as qwee-noah . Its keen-wah, Dad, how do you not know that!! We ate on paper plates to avoid washing dishes. Two more of Tiffanys friends, Colleen and Trea, arrived with a bottle of champagne. The plan was for the three of them to meet Julia at Stanford. They said, You should come . I said, Should I go, would it be funny if I went. Id be the oldest one there. I rinsed in the shower, singing. Sifted through wads of socks looking for undies, found a worn polka-dotted triangle of fabric in the corner. I pulled on a tight, charcoal-gray dress. A heavy silver necklace with tiny red stones. An oatmeal cardigan with large brown buttons. I sat on my brown carpet, lacing up my coffee-colored combat boots, my hair still wet in a bun. Our kitchen wallpaper is striped blue and yellow. An old clock and wooden cabinets line the walls, the doorframe marked with our heights over the years (a small shoe symbol drawn if we were measured while wearing them). Opening and closing cabinet doors, we found nothing but whiskey; in the refrigerator the only mixers were soy milk and lime juice. The only shot glasses we had were from family trips, Las Vegas, Maui, back when Tiffany and I collected them as little cups for our stuffed animals. I drank the whiskey straight, unapologetically, freely, the same way you might say, Sure I ll attend your cousins bar mitzvah, on the one condition that Im hammered . We asked our mom to take the four of us to Stanford, a seven-minute drive down Foothill Expressway. Stanford was my backyard, my community, a breeding ground for cheap tutors my parents hired over the years. I grew up on that campus, attended summer camps in tents on the lawns, snuck out of dining halls with chicken nuggets bulging from my pockets, had dinner with professors who were parents of good friends. My mom dropped us off near the Stanford bookstore, where on rainy days she had brought us for hot cocoa and madeleines. We walked five minutes, descended the slope of pavement to a large house tucked beneath pine trees. A guy with tiny tally marks of hair on his upper lip let us in. I found a soda and juice dispenser in the fraternity kitchen, began slapping the buttons, concocting a nonalcoholic beverage I advertised as dingleberry juice. Now serving le dinglebooboo drank for the lady! KA, KA all day. People started pouring in. The lights went off. We stood behind a table by the front door like a welcoming committee, spread our arms and sang, Welcome welcome welcome!!! I watched the way girls entered, heads tucked halfway into their shoulders, smiling timidly, scanning the room for a familiar face to latch on to. I knew that look because Id felt it. In college, a fraternity was an exclusive kingdom, throbbing with noise and energy, where the young ones heiled and the large males ruled. After college, a fraternity was a sour, yeasty atmosphere, a scattering of f limsy cups, where you could hear the soles of your shoes unpeeling from sticky floors, and punch tasted like paint thinner, and curls of black hair were pasted to toilet rims. We discovered a plastic handle of vodka on the table. I cradled it like Id discovered water in the desert. Bless me. I poured it into a cup and threw it back straight. Everyone was mashed up against each other on tables, swaying like little penguins. I stood alone on a chair, arms in the air, a drunk piece of seaweed, until my sister escorted me down. We went outside to pee in the bushes. Julia and I began freestyle rapping. I rapped about dry skin, got stuck when I couldnt think of anything that rhymed with Cetaphil . The basement was full, people spilling out onto the orb of light on the conc Details ISBN0735223726 Author Chanel Miller Year 2020 ISBN-10 0735223726 ISBN-13 9780735223721 Format Paperback Pages 384 Language English Short Title Know My Name Subtitle A Memoir Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-08-18 NZ Release Date 2020-08-18 US Release Date 2020-08-18 Publication Date 2020-08-18 UK Release Date 2020-08-18 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint Penguin USA DEWEY 364.1532092 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:129139353;

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