Surviving the Silence
Subtitle: Black Women's Stories of Rape
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780393320459
First sentence: On September 6, 1981, the evening of a gorgeous late summer-early fall day, the kind with winds that catch ceiling-high curtains and whip them gently against the window sills, I was raped.