Reception
Speak is a New York Times Best-Seller. The novel received several awards and honors, including the 2000 Golden Kite Award and the 2000 ALA Best Book For Young adults. Speak gained critical acclaim for its portrayal of the trauma caused by rape. Barbara Tannert-Smith, author of "Like Falling Up Into a Storybook: Trauma and Intertextual Repetition in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak.", claims the story's ability to speak the reader's language brought about its commercial success. Publishers Weekly says, Speak's "overall gritty realism and Melinda's hard-won metamorphosis will leave readers touched and inspired". Ned Vizzini, for the New York Times, calls it "different", "a grittily realistic portrait of sexual violence in high school." Don Latham, author of David Almond: Memory and Magic, calls Speak "painful, smart, and darkly comic".
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