This book is about a survivor of rape, but I think is structured in a really great way such that:
*that is not her primary, defining characteristic but ALSO
*it doesn't discount the effect of this event on her life.
*it is at least as much about female friendship

My mother got this from a Little Free Library near her house, and those things kind of annoy me, and also once she really wanted me to read/watch "The Help" so I was skeptical. Again, the book's structure draws you into a story about a female friendship, and because there are important family relationships and how the story is told in flashback (but not random jumpy flashback, just college-present-college next year-present) you are invested in the characters before you are confronted with any sexual violence and the fact that they fall on either side, in the early aughts, of "believing all women," and perhaps that is why I find it effective, more effective than news stories that place the crime front and center, then the woman as victim, and nothing about her really beyond that.
RIYL if you like The Sex Lives of College Girls on HBO