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."

艾麗斯·西伯德（Alice Sebold），美國作傢。曾師從於著名小說傢雷濛德·卡佛、托拜厄斯•沃爾夫、詩人海登·卡魯斯等。一九九九年，在沃爾夫的啓發下，她將自己大學時代遭受強暴的傷痛經曆寫成《他們說，我是幸運的》一書齣版。她的筆法節製、冷靜，充滿坦率的自我剖析和細緻入微 的情感，引發讀者巨大的共鳴，也使得性暴力這一社會問題引發熱議。她因而被媒體譽為“最具潛力的作傢”。二〇〇二年初，她的長篇小說處女作《可愛的骨頭》齣版，蟬聯《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜榜首三十周之久，甚至成為一大文化現象，並於二〇〇九年被著名導演彼得·傑剋遜改編為同名電影。《可愛的骨頭》簡體中文新版也將由未讀齣版。她的另一作品為《近月》。