The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 5月24日 00時00分

In 1981, when she was a freshman studying writing at Syracuse University, Alice Sebold was raped. In the 1990s, she wrote two best-selling books informed by the experience: “Lucky,” a memoir, and “The Lovely Bones,” which has been described as the most commercially successful début novel since “Gone with the Wind.” Anthony Broadwater, who was convicted of the crime, spent 16 years in prison, and an additional 22 years as a registered sex offender. In 2021, he was exonerated. “Right now I still don’t know where to go with this but to grief and to silence and to shame,” Sebold wrote.

For 40 years, Sebold and Broadwater defined themselves through stories that were in conflict. But their lives were intertwined. “The rapist came out of nowhere and shaped my entire life,” Sebold said. “My rape came out of nowhere and shaped his entire life.” Broadwater, too, felt that they were bound together, the same moments creating the upheaval in their lives. “We both went through the fire,” he said. “You see movies about rape and the young lady is scrubbing herself in the shower, over and over. And I’m saying to myself, ‘Damn, I feel the same way.’ Will it ever be gone from my memory, my mind, my thoughts? No. And it’s not going to be gone for her, either.” At the link in our bio, Rachel Aviv writes about the case—shaped by prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, and trauma—and its psychological aftermath. Photograph by @elinorcarucci for The New Yorker.

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