Summary: Austin-based author, Elizabeth Harris, brings us the story of a woman who is the victim of a violent act. In Mayhem: The Three Lives of a Woman, protagonist, Evelyn Kunkel Gant does indeed live three lives. She is daughter, wife, and then, as a victim of sexual assault, a pariah—one who never receives any kind of compassion or vindication—except through the telling of her story. Elizabeth Harris takes us to the rural Texas of the 1930s—a place immersed in gender and social expectations that
