In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes"); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

艾丽斯·西伯德（Alice Sebold），美国作家。曾师从于著名小说家雷蒙德·卡佛、托拜厄斯•沃尔夫、诗人海登·卡鲁斯等。一九九九年，在沃尔夫的启发下，她将自己大学时代遭受强暴的伤痛经历写成《他们说，我是幸运的》一书出版。她的笔法节制、冷静，充满坦率的自我剖析和细致入微 的情感，引发读者巨大的共鸣，也使得性暴力这一社会问题引发热议。她因而被媒体誉为“最具潜力的作家”。二〇〇二年初，她的长篇小说处女作《可爱的骨头》出版，蝉联《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜榜首三十周之久，甚至成为一大文化现象，并于二〇〇九年被著名导演彼得·杰克逊改编为同名电影。《可爱的骨头》简体中文新版也将由未读出版。她的另一作品为《近月》。