“Giving him a voice felt like a big risk. I almost felt like a criminal for giving him an opportunity to talk about how the rape affected him. A lot of my friends didn’t want me to do that,” says Jeannie Vanasco
Jeannie Vanasco. Photo: Courtesy of Tin House Books In 2003, the writer Jeannie Vanasco was raped by one of her closest high-school friends, Mark. At the time, they were sophomores in college, attending a house party where Mark lived. Vanasco was passed-out, drunk, and Mark and a friend carried her downstairs to his room in the basement. When she came to, Mark was standing over her.
In the book, you mention other experiences of sexual assault in your life. What made you want to focus on this one? That part of the story never made sense to me: why carry someone who’s passed out down a bunch of steps into a basement? In my mind, I could hear him suggesting that they carry me down into the basement, into his room. But I wanted him to confirm my memory. I had this fear that if I got one piece wrong, the whole story would fall apart. He told me that he knew if he could get me down to the basement, that would work in his favor.
He did recently send me an email. We’re not really in touch, but the publisher sent him a copy of the book . But he did say, “If my family reads it, so be it.” His family would immediately be able to figure out it was him. But I really wanted him to take the extra step and tell them and apologize to them.
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