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Notes on a silencing: a memoir

✍ Scribed by Lacy Crawford

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Weight: 245 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction
City: Concord (N.H.);New Hampshire;Concord;United States
ISBN: 0316539864

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✦ Synopsis

A riveting, lucid memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and the efforts by a powerful New England boarding school to silence her --at any cost

When the elite St. Paul's School recently came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought she'd put behind her the assault she'd suffered at St. Paul's decades before, when she was fifteen. Still, when detectives asked for victims to come forward, she sent a note.

Her criminal case file reopened, she saw for the first time evidence that corroborated her memories. Here were depictions of the naïve, hard-working girl she'd been, a chorister and debater, the daughter of a priest; of the two senior athletes who assaulted her and were allowed to graduate with awards; and of the faculty, doctors, and priests who had known about Crawford's assault and gone to great lengths to bury it.

Now a wife, mother, and...

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