She has taught creative writing and editing at the University of Toronto and Centennial College, and lives in Toronto with her family. In 1981 we didn’t know what triggering was, but I’m quite certain police officers knew how odd that was for Sebold to describe someone SO different from Broadwater and then boom - that’s him? After an officer suggested the man might have been Anthony Broadwater, who had reportedly been seen in the area, police arrested and charged Broadwater.

She added: “As a traumatised 18-year-old rape victim, I chose to put my faith in the American legal system. Lucky is a ride with a badass friend who just happens to be that much smarter and sneakier than anyone else around.When she discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions, her elation is tempered by one big problem: cashing in the winning ticket means she’ll be arrested for her crimes. Maybe you have to live through something traumatic to understand, and how the POLICE jacked this upis ridiculous. There's talk of missing treasure no one has been able to find for years and years, and artefacts are mysteriously disappearing in the local museum.

The author continued: “I am grateful that Mr Broadwater has finally been vindicated, but the fact remains that 40 years ago, he became another young Black man brutalised by our flawed legal system. Following Broadwater’s exoneration, Sebold wrote in a post to blogging platform Medium: “First, I want to say that I am truly sorry to Anthony Broadwater and I deeply regret what you have been through. In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. When I heard about the dead girl, I could imagine her pleading as I had, and wondered when her hair had been pulled loose from her hair tie.That same sort of despondency that you find when you know that there is no option but to just move on. I started having some doubts, not about the story that Alice told about her assault, which was tragic, but the second part of her book about the trial, which didn’t hang together. She tells it exactly like it is, and it was interesting to see how she handled herself in and out of the courtroom—especially for someone so young.

Yep - a white woman says “rape” against a black man and this happens but this wasn’t a false story - Sebold WAS raped by a black man.she accepts that this horrible thing happened to her, and then she tells her story of how she pulled herself out of the hole, how she fought against being a victim, how she fought with herself. But when you are literally America’s Most Wanted with your face plastered all over the national news and you go to effing San Quentin prison to visit your incarcerated Pops? An electric story about an unconventional heroine who is on the run from her past with a winning lottery ticket that could change her future forever. Broadwater tried five times to have the conviction overturned, with at least as many groups of lawyers. L’amara verità è questa: se potessi avere una gomma magica e cancellare quella notte del 1981, lo farei in un batter d’occhio, e se potessi dire a qualunque ragazza o ragazzo violentato da un parente che rispetto a lui o a lei sono stata davvero fortunata, lo avrei già fatto.