{"product_id":"dear-medusa-a-novel-in-verse-9780593485736","title":"Dear Medusa: (A Novel in Verse)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is more than a story about sexual violence--this book is about race, sexuality, love, and how anger can be a catalyst for healing.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Gabrielle Union, bestselling author, actress, and producer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school--whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the world around her, she's been cast, like the mythical Medusa, as not the victim but the monster of her own story: the slut who asked for it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlicia was abandoned by her best friend, quit the track team, and now spends her days in detention feeling isolated and invisible. When mysterious letters left in her locker hint at another victim, Alicia struggles to keep up the walls she's built around her trauma. At the same time, her growing attraction to a new girl in school makes her question what those walls are really keeping out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[This] fierce and brightly burning feminist roar...paints a devastating and haunting portrait of a vulnerable young woman discovering the power of her voice, her courage, and her rage.\" --Samira Ahmed, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eInternment \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Hollow Fires\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Olivia a. Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Labyrinth Road\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.51w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593485736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/23\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023 pg. 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023 pg. 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlivia A. Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer from Louisville, Kentucky. Her essays have been published by \u003ci\u003eBitch Media, Real Simple, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Gay Mag, \u003c\/i\u003e and more. She teaches creative writing at Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, where she guides her students through not only poetry and fiction but also considerations of the world and who they are in it. She is the author of several books for children and adults.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Labyrinth Road","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40797477830771,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c50a46e0-65a3-4e41-af05-f31d3d90191c.jpg?v=1682000233","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/dear-medusa-a-novel-in-verse-9780593485736","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}