Know My Name: A Memoir

Miller describes her hometown of Palo Alto, California, painting a picture of an idyllic neighborhood where “everybody has degrees and everybody recycles” (29). She details her life before the sexual assault working at a start-up. This was Miller’s first job out of college, and she had been working there for six months. Now, Miller struggles to return to her normal life and discovers bruises across her hands. She begins riding her bicycle late at night, which worries her father.

Miller’s sister Tiffany returns to the police station to identify the aggressive man from the fraternity party. The man she identifies is Miller’s assailant. Ten days pass before Miller reads in the newspaper that a Stanford athlete named Brock Turner was arrested for raping an unconscious woman. She learns about the graphic details of her own rape from the newspaper. She answers a barrage of calls from Deputy District Attorney Alaleh, from a Stanford representative, from Detective Kim, and from her advocate from the YWCA. Tiffany calls and tells her that her own name and the name of her friend Julia have been leaked. Miller realizes that reporters must have gained access to transcripts from the hospital and “sifted through them, using [her] words to construct their own

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