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The Book I Think About Every Time I See a Courtroom Scene in Fiction
Chanel Miller was known as Emily Doe for three years before she published Know My Name and reclaimed her identity. Her memoir about surviving a sexual assault and the legal process that followed is the most carefully and beautifully written account of institutional failure I have read. It is also a book about art, about her family, about what it means to be a person while a case about you proceeds without you. I read it over two days and could not think about other things.


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Miller writes about a legal system that failed her with more precision than anger.


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I had to accept that I could not control what other people said about me.


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Reading Know My Name
5 Voice established
5 Most important
4 Beyond testimony
5 Most powerful close

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Did Know My Name change how you think about legal processes and survivors?
Yes fundamentally and immediately
Somewhat, it confirmed and deepened what I already understood
Not much, I already knew a lot about this before reading it
I have not read it yet