Desir will be donating 50% of her proceeds from the novel back to the project. Desir’s work in The Voices and Faces Project, a writing workshop for survivors of sexual violence that promotes speaking out and writing as a therapeutic process. Unfortunately, far too many teens will recognize his feelings of frustration, anger, and helplessness in the wake of his girlfriend’s attack readers with similar experiences will relate to and perhaps learn from Ben’s journey. However, Fault Line stands out from other novels about teen sexual violence with a fresh point of view – the story is told not through the eyes of the victim, but from her boyfriend’s perspective. Fans of Ellen Hopkins, Jason Myers, and Hannah Moskowitz will enjoy this author’s edgy realism. Desir delivers a gritty, devastating, brilliant debut novel with Fault Line. Ben watches as his once-vivacious girlfriend becomes a shadow of her former self he must try to be supportive while wrestling with his own emotions about Ani’s ordeal and the lingering question in his mind: who is to blame?Ĭ. Just when their relationship is getting serious, the unthinkable happens to Ani at a party that Ben decided not to attend. When Ben meets Ani, the sarcastic and free-spirited new girl in town, he falls for her – hard.
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