Your Name Here:_______________
A novel by Cris Mazza

"One of the most impressive American novelists of our contemporary age."

- Spectrum Review

"An ideal choice for a feminist book discussion group. . . . By the time she reaches the end of the book, the reader realizes how accurately Mazza’s unusual title reflects the essential damage to our identities that violence against women inflicts." - Women’s Review of Books

"In this narrative of female rage, the ambiguity of abuse and the difficulty of negotiating a meaningful life as a woman in America, the author of Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? stays with themes she has handled provocatively in the past and continues to work with passion, insight, and a certain cold beauty." - Publisher’s Weekly

Award-winner Mazza’s intricate and compelling novel, about a woman re-living events that culminated in her rape ten years before, forces readers to re-examine their own attitudes about sexual harassment.

Ten years ago, Erin Haley was someone else: a young woman named Corinne Staub who was set up by a man she trusted, then gang-raped. Erin never thinks about the rape, doesn’t remember exactly what happened to her. But a decade after waking up in a hospital bed, her carefully reconstructed life starts falling apart. So she returns to San Diego to read the journals she once wrote, in an attempt to discover what did happen to her - and in the process, she reclaims a part of herself she once abandoned.

Mazza’s disturbing novel offers no easy depictions of victims and abusers. Instead, she presents all of her characters as flawed, sometimes weak and self-serving individuals, who each play a role in what is ultimately done to them by others. Your Name Here: _____ offers no pat answers, but demands that readers make their own decisions about where to draw the line along a spectrum ranging from verbal harassment to rape.

Cris Mazza’s previous novels include the Coffee House titles Exposed and the award-winning How to Leave a Country. Her short story collections include Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? and Revelation Countdown. Mazza lives in the Chicago area and spends summers in her native southern California.

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