![]() Do you understand? If you scream, you're dead. SEBOLD: (Reading) He said these words - I'll kill you if you scream. ULABY: Sebold reading from the audiobook of her harrowing 1999 memoir, "Lucky." ULABY: Author Alice Sebold was only 18 years old when she was raped and beaten by a stranger in a park.ĪLICE SEBOLD (AUTHOR): (Reading) This is what I remember. SAOIRSE RONAN (ACTOR): (As Susie Salmon) I waited for justice. The book is told from the point of view of a teenage girl in heaven after she's been killed and mutilated by a rapist. Sebold wrote the hugely popular novel "The Lovely Bones." It sold more than 8 million copies. Broadwater wept in court last Tuesday in a video captured by after it was proved he was wrongly convicted for the 1981 rape of Alice Sebold. ![]() But this is a story about real-life sexual violence, and what follows may be upsetting to some listeners.ĪNTHONY J BROADWATER (GENERAL PUBLIC): (Crying). That backstory, as NPR's Neda Ulaby tells us, unfolds like a thriller. ![]() SCOTT SIMON (HOST): A man convicted of the rape of a bestselling author, who wrote about her attack in a celebrated memoir, has been fully exonerated. ![]()
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