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In You Ruined It: A Book About Boundaries, author Anastasia Higginbotham sheds light on the confusion and pain that many children feel in the aftermath of incest and sexual assault. When an 11-year-old discloses that a favorite cousin sexually assaulted her, it's hard to tell what hurts more: the betrayal or the fall-out. After all, everyone always says to tell someone, but does this mean she'll never get to hang out with him again? What if he goes to jail? How will she know if she can trust someone again? And the biggest question of all: Is this her fault? You Ruined It: A Book About Boundaries is a testament to an 11-year-old's experience of a confusing betrayal, her broken heart, and the loved ones who help her piece it back together.
About the Author
Anastasia Higginbotham is an author, artist, and activist who created the Ordinary Terrible Things children's book series which includes Divorce Is the Worst, Death Is Stupid, Tell Me About Sex, Grandma, and Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness, published by Dottir Press. Not My Idea is the only children's picture book that roots the problem of racism in whiteness and empowers white children and families to see and dismantle white supremacy. Higginbotham makes her books by hand in collage on brown grocery bag paper, using recycled materials, including jewelry and fabric. She offers workshops at schools and libraries on art, activism, and how to make meaning through collage out of whatever broken, ragged, unraveling life circumstances we face. A speechwriter for social justice organizations, Higginbotham lives her books' messages and teaches self-defense through Prepare Inc. for students of all ages. Dottir Press will publish her next book, What You Don't Know: Not a Coming-out Story, in January 2021.
