Claire's Reviews > Why Did You Come Back Every Summer

As Claire Lavery so aptly put, responding to a tweet I wrote while reading this book

Let the quiet become loud
Let the quietened have a voice

Brilliantly conceived, thoughtfully and concisely constructed.
A stunning, justice-seeking work that delivers just that, in its own way.
The cacophony of voices, how what is left quiet, resounds so loudly.
The power of what is left unsaid.
We know. We hear. We see. We understand. We believe.
Utterly compelling.
Unsupported, it navigates the path of demonstration in undermining a victim, how protection of self(s) from outside gaze, hangs a victim out to dry.

This does what justice fails to do for victims of sexual abuse.
It lets the story and the people surrounding it speak for themselves and show just how much more abuse and neglect a young woman is likely to receive when seeking justice, reparation, for the taking of an other version of her life, one she will never get back.

Inspired and yet so very tragic.
Highly Recommended.