Summary of Mena Suvari's The Great Peace

By IRB Media

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#1 I was born in 1979. My parents had moved into a beautiful, regal house built in 1870 off Ruggles Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. I grew up thinking all of life was magical. I was most content when I was on my own and able to teach myself.

#2 My mother was afraid that being too smart would make me seem too different, so she got me into modeling. I became a client of a modeling agency in Boston, and they created a go-see card for me. It included a cute little head shot.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822582330

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was born in 1979. My parents had moved into a beautiful, regal house built in 1870 off Ruggles Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. I grew up thinking all of life was magical. I was most content when I was on my own and able to teach myself.

#2

My mother was afraid that being too smart would make me seem too different, so she got me into modeling. I became a client of a modeling agency in Boston, and they created a go-see card for me. It included a cute little head shot.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was eight years old when my parents moved me and my brother to St. John in the Virgin Islands. I helped my mother run her store, which she named Mena. I enjoyed exploring the bay and collecting shells. One day, I saw a ginormous bow attached to the head of a beautiful woman. It was Whitney Houston.

#2

I was terrified to go out after the incident with the bullies. I took long back routes to the market or anywhere else I had to go. I was eventually forced to move away from the marina, and after that, I just a dot on the horizon that seemed like a dream rather than anything that had once been real.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

I was always the strange girl in school, and I was never the frilly, delicate girl everyone expected me to be. I learned to pretend and play the game. I made one good friend while I was in Charleston, a girl named Jennie.

#2

I was approaching the end of my twelfth year. I had started to bleed, and my parents told me that was normal as I entered into my teenage years. I found KJ, and he began writing me love letters. I was flattered and responded by becoming friends with his sister.

Insights from Chapter 4

#1

I was always left to my own devices, and I never had a curfew. I was 13 when I met KJ, and we became best friends. He professed his love for me in every way possible, and I eventually trusted him as a boyfriend.

#2

I was with KJ one day when he tried to force himself on me. I said no, but he didn’t listen. He took off the condom, and I