Cole, Olivia A.,

Dear Medusa / Olivia A. Cole. - First Ember edition. - 378 pages ; 21 cm.

Originally published in hardcover in the US by Labyrinth Road, New York, 2023.

To the world around her, Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers is like the mythical Medusa, cast not as the victim but as the monster of her own story: the slut who asked for it. What her classmates who judge and shame her for having sex don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, leaving her traumatized and alone. When mysterious letters left in her locker hint at another victim, Alicia struggles to keep up the walls she's built around her. At the same time, her growing attraction to a new girl in school makes her question what those walls were really keeping out. Alicia fights to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving on her own terms.

Adolescent.

ISBN: 9780593485767 9780593485736

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sexually abused teenagers--Fiction.
High school students--Fiction.
Lesbian teenagers--Fiction.
Psychic trauma--Fiction.
Teacher-student relationships--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Novels in verse.
Lesbian fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Young adult fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6