That was something familiar, something I understood' (p.236 of my paperback copy).Īfter sexual assault, it seems less harmful for a girl to inflict damage upon herself rather than having others do it.

She writes of 'needing to be a victim of some kind over and over. She often runs towards self-destruction because maybe on the other side of that, there is some kind of familiarity, some kind of safety, some version, perhaps twisted, of love. 'Coming back' from rape is a journey, and it is usually punctuated with a lot of self-destruction, and Roxane's story has a lot of that. In reading Roxane's autobiography, I was reminded of another woman's rape words about how she disassociated and felt herself floating above, watching her own rape from the ceiling and these are her words: 'I will spend the rest of my life trying to reattach the parts of me that watched from the ceiling that day'. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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