Whatever Gets You Through

“Challenges even readers familiar with sexual violence narratives in their assumptions about what survivors need.”
—Publishers Weekly

“These writers’ prose and generosity are nothing short of profound.”
—Booklist (★)

“The anthology’s monumental triumph is in the unfiltered agency of its writers.”
—Globe & Mail

“The editors…have chosen a dozen voices for this survivors’ chorus. Each…is unique, and none seem tempted by the saccharine truisms of pop psychology or TV versions of ‘redemptive recovery.’ They all tell their own difficult truths in memorable language.”
—Vancouver Sun

“One of the stunning elements of Whatever Gets You Through is the theme that survivorhood is multi-faceted, contradictory, and individual…the book doesn’t offer a cure, because it acknowledges that one doesn’t exist.”
—Loose Lips Magazine

“It’s not possible to cure survivorhood, not as an individual and not as a culture. Nor, this collection argues, should we, because it can be a powerful source of creativity and power.”
—Quill & Quire

“Whatever Gets You Through is a salve, a soothing whisper, and a necessary roundhouse kick to the worst of rape culture. These texts are a varied, imaginative, and essential addition to survivor literature.”
—Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People

“These essays remind us that survival, like the Me Too movement itself, is an arduous yet inspiring process—because it’s thrilling when so many resonant voices, unheard for so long, are emboldened to speak their truth at once.”
—Lynn Coady, author of Hellgoing

Stacey May Fowles is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and essayist. She is the author of three novels and a work of nonfiction, and has edited two previous anthologies. Her bylines include the National Post, the Globe and Mail, Elle Canada, Maisonneuve, VICE, Jezebel, and many others. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Jen Sookfong Lee’s books include The Conjoined, nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, The Better Mother, The End of East, and Gentlemen of the Shade. Based in Vancouver, BC, she teaches writing at The Writers’ Studio Online with Simon Fraser University.

Jessica Valenti, called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women by the Guardian, is a columnist for the Guardian US and a feminist author. Her most recent book, Sex Object: A Memoir, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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