Burke narrates this journey to healing so that each chapter—although they do build upon each other—can stand alone as its own meditation on a subject or an emotion or a focal moment…The result is that her voice as an activist now, post-Me Too, sounds no more or less fierce than any of her other voices, and it is clear that she holds each of these multitudes, these truths, within her still … Since hers is an emotional journey, the events are not always recalled chronologically; healing requires practice and will not always be linear. She is, thus, a master of pacing … the emotional present of each moment wells from the page … She is grateful and proud and loving and celebratory and comical. She speaks deep wisdom plainly and easily. She doesn’t mince words or try to make excuses … Burke’s honesty reinforces #metoo as the work of a movement, not just a moment.
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
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