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Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. The details of the rape is another significant part of the chapter. A syracuse university female student is assaulted on campus. The novel was an immediate success after its release and sold over one million copies and remained on the new york times bestseller list for over a year. She currently lives in southern california, where she is at work on her first novel. It was definitely worth the day and a half it took to read it couldnt put it down, and because of that i went looking for more of sebolds books.