Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson, 1999
A ninth-grade girl stops speaking after a party she can't explain. Her diary — wry, funny, furious — is how she starts to find a voice.
Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak was a National Book Award finalist in 1999, and has since become one of the most frequently banned books in American schools, challenged for the rape it refuses to soften.
Feels like longing.
The argument for silence, made by someone who has tested it.
It’s easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. Books by Laurie Halse Anderson
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