IT WASN'T LOVE Memoir Set for Release, 10/14

New literary non-fiction by JS Lee exposes a controversial self-empowerment of life for a teenage girl post-rape.

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'It Wasn't Love' Synopsis
Millie has decided it's time to take control over the situation regarding her virginity, or lack thereof. Determined to regain some semblance of balance after a year of post-rape trauma, she finds a kindred spirit-Luke-who is dealing with a loss of his own. Off the hook from living up to impossible expectations, she chooses to reinvent herself through her sexuality and a series of relationship failures.

Millie is also the sole Asian adoptee in a large and bustling white family whose struggles are plenty. Severe anorexia and family embezzlement allow her own less-tangible issues to be easily overlooked. Emptied of the life she thought she was meant to lead, dive with her through the fractures between innocence and immorality.

'It Wasn't Love' exposes a controversial self-empowerment in a society of floundering youth. It reveals the shame often coveted too closely and the truths we just can't change. Through the voice of a girl on the verge of her will, experience the awkwardness of trying to cope with suicide and self-preservation. Serve as witness to the tumultuous path she must take to seek inner peace and, at last, love.