Prized Possessions — Avery Corman

It happened to Elizabeth it could happen to you.

Elizabeth Mason is beautiful+, gregarious and intelligent, Shortly after joining Layton - a prestigious East Coast college - to further her studies, she is invited out by Jimmy Andrews, the college heart-throb, Elizabeth is raped. Date-raped.

She immediately quarantines herself from her classmates and consigns herself to a living hell. Her waking hours are tormented as memories of the unconsented coupling flick across her conciousness. Even in sleep, Elizabeth's dreams are haunted by the sexual coercion. Her spirit is trapped, frozen.

Was Elizabeth the temptress, the seducer, asking for it? Did she lead her Adonis on? Will she topple the hegemony of the college males and emerge carrying a jubilant banner, thus paving the way for a positive strategy for her sisterhood? Focussing on age-old myths connected with rape, Prized Possessions explores, advocates and cries 'No means No'.