Título: Dear Medusa: (A Novel in Verse)
Autor: Olivia A. Cole
Sinopse: This 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.
"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."
—Gabrielle Union, bestselling author, actress, and producer
Sixteen-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.
Alicia 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.
"[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, New York Times bestselling author of Internment and Hollow Fires
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Dear Medusa: (A Novel in Verse)”, de Olivia A. Cole, publicado pela editora Ember, em 2024 e com 400 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Ember
Páginas: 400
Ano: 2024
Edição: 1
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0593485769
ISBN13: 9780593485767
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Ember apresentam uma variedade de narrativas que transitam entre o contemporâneo e o fantástico, sempre com personagens jovens em momentos decisivos de suas vidas. A experiência de leitura frequentemente envolve protagonistas adolescentes enfrentando dilemas pessoais, sociais e até sobrenaturais, com uma linguagem acessível e ritmo que ora é ágil, ora mais reflexivo. O catálogo sugere obras que exploram temas como identidade, pertencimento, conflitos familiares e descobertas, ora em ambientes urbanos modernos, ora em mundos imaginários ou distópicos. Há uma atenção especial a histórias que combinam humor com emoção, além de tramas que equilibram romance, mistério e aventura.
