Luckiest Girl Alive

This is a novel about the demanding process of psychological healing. Ani has been gangraped and then compelled under extraordinary circumstances to kill a friend. She has also been the subject of a massive whisper campaign that maligns her character. Since her first year at Bradley, despite the appearance that she has moved on and put Bradley behind her, Ani has been in raw survivor mode. She has shared only parts of her painful recollections with her family and with her fiancé. Despite the appearances of success and the whip-smart air of confidence that she displays, Ani is in denial, unsure of her past and terrified that its reality will inevitably compromise her phony sense of recovery.

The novel looks into how best to handle the impact of massive emotional and psychological trauma. The narrator, years after her trauma and apparently well on her way to recovery, reveals the difficulty in handling the impact of massive trauma. Although she is reluctant to admit it, Ani Fanelli has been in survivor mode since she was 14. In her considered and deliberate resistance to engaging her own experience, Ana refuses to engage the impact of two extreme experiences: first, the trauma of the gangrape and then, within weeks, her involvement in a horrific