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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
In a powerfully urgent and forceful work of personal reclamation, Michelle Bowdler tells her own story of a brutal rape and the personal toll of a botched investigation that went nowhere. That \"nowhere\" is what prompts her to ask how we as a society can call rape a felony but fail to bring its perpetrators to justice.
Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction
TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2020
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"Is Rape a Crime? is beautifully written and compellingly told. In 2020, we were all looking for solutions and this book was right on time. It is one we should all be reading."
—Anita Hill
"This standout memoir marks a cruci...