'Bitter' Christine Blasey Ford describes chaotic experience in memoir about accusing Kavanaugh

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Christine Blasey Ford's memoir "One Way Back" about the way her life turned upside down after accusing then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault ends with a note of frustration with the way her situation was handled, even by those sympathetic to her.

"I wanted this book to set the record straight, but if I'm being perfectly honest, I was also kind of bitter that I was the one who had to do it," she writes. "There were all these brilliant politicians, lawyers, publicists, activists, and journalists around me, but I was ultimately the one who had to paddle back out and fix it."

Ford is a prolific surfer and thus surfing and water metaphors abound in her account of how, in 2018, she became the center of the political universe when she accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a high school party in the early 1980s. Kavanaugh emphatically denied the charge, and with no time, location or corroborating witnesses to bolster her account, it became the definitive he-said, she-said story, culminating in a wrenching day of testimony where Ford and Kavanaugh made their cases.

Ultimately, readers know how that story ends: Kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed thanks to the small GOP majority at the time, and Ford's and Kavanaugh's respective camps remain convinced to this day that their