I chose this book to better understand the emotional and physiological effects rape has on its victims. Statistic shows 1 in every 5 women will experience being raped in their life time in the United States (Robin, 2011). As one of these women that has been a victim, choosing this book was very personal because I was a victim of sexual abuse as a child. I desired to see how someone else in a similar situation survived with the stress and shame of being a victim. I wanted to grasp how someone else like Raine handled her situation and compare it to how I dealt with mine. In Nancy Raine’s book After Silence, she discusses how she survived and eventually recovered from her attack. In the book she recounts how the crime changed her life forever.