Know My Name: A Memoir

Why I recommend it

This is an extraordinary act of reclaiming voice from a legal and media system that reduced a person to what was done to her. Miller writes with clarity, anger, humor, and moral force.

What stayed with me

Language can restore personhood or strip it away. The book made me more attentive to who is allowed complexity, who must prove credibility, and how institutions narrate harm.

Who it’s useful for

Readers prepared to engage with sexual violence, survival, justice, and the institutional treatment of people who report harm.

A tension or limitation

The subject matter is painful and explicit. Its importance does not make it the right book for every reader or every moment.