![]() And even if none of these things were true, the rapist was Kellen Turner, the sheriff's well-liked older son, and there was never any chance that Sheriff Turner would listen to her. The rapist was someone she knew and had an undisguised crush on. Her father was the town alcoholic, with a checkered history. The circumstances are against her, and ripe for backbiting gossip: She was intoxicated. Romy was raped at a high school party, but virtually no one in her small hometown believes her. ![]() Romy is seeking safe outlets for emotions that are held in check largely by her own inability to sort through them, and the title expresses something even she doesn't understand: Underneath her diffidence, defiance, apathy, mourning and other sensations is a solid core of fury. But that makes the book compellingly unpredictable. ![]() The protagonist, Romy Grey, is dealing with many feelings, and rage is one of the least obvious. ![]() It's a single entendre - "all the rage" really does just refer to anger, though the book could also have been called All the Confusion, All the Defiant Loneliness or All the Sublimated Self-Destruction. The title of Courtney Summers' latest young adult novel, All The Rage, doesn't quite earn its seeming double meaning. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title All the Rage Author Courtney Summers ![]()
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