I saw MrsLangdonAlger’s review of this novel and was basically sold on the description of this one as an angry The Lovely Bones. It is but there are also distinct differences – the rapist/killer isn’t a creepy older neighbor but a peer of Ellie’s. The Lovely Bones was sad and beautifully written but by making I Stop Somewhere involve a peer, it is also very much a condemnation of rape culture, a testimony to how early girls learn their lack of importance and how early […]
If The Lovely Bones Was a Raging Takedown of Rape Culture
As described in the title of this post, I Stop Somewhere reads like a version of The Lovely Bones as a raging, mournful takedown of rape culture. The author notes in her acknowledgement and her website that she wrote this partly out of anger, and I could tell and was grateful for that. One of the things that #MeToo being more visible has brought us is the increased visibility of women’s rage at what has been happening to and continues to happen to us. I don’t think […]