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Expand Your Horizons: A Book About A Tragedy
(Trigger Warnings: Rape, rape culture through the centuries)
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A new contemporary YA novel in prose and verse about a girl struggling with guilt and a desire for revenge after her sister‘s rapist escapes with no prison time.
Em Morales‘s older sister was raped by another student after a frat party. ↩️
But the victory is short-lived. In a matter of minutes, justice vanishes as the judge turns the Morales family‘s world upside down again by sentencing the rapist to no prison time. While her family is stunned, Em is literally sick with rage and guilt. To make matters worse, a news clip of her saying that the sentence “makes me want to use a fucking sword” goes viral.
From this low point, Em must find a new reason to go on and help her family heal, and she finds it in the unlikely form of the story of a 15th-century French noblewoman, Marguerite de Bressieux, who is legendary as an avenging knight for rape victims.
We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire is a searing and nuanced portrait of a young woman torn between a persistent desire for revenge and a burning need for hope.
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