Book Notes On A Silencing

Lacy crawford s notes on a silencing is a haunting exploration of the systematic ways assault victims are ignored by rachel louise snyder july 5 2020 at 8 02 p m.

Book notes on a silencing. First they refused to believe me. Inevitably when a woman comes forward with an allegation of a sexual assault from many years ago a certain type of person will ask why now. That night would haunt her for decades to come.

Paul s boarding school where she was the survivor of a long ignored sexual assault. Notes on a silencing is a purposefully named brutal and brilliant retort to the asinine question of why now the story is crafted with the precision of a thriller with revelations that sent me reeling crawford s writing is astonishing. Notes on a silencing a memoir by lacy crawford.

Paul s school an elite boarding school in new hampshire where at the age of fifteen she was. Notes on a silencing is a profoundly poignant memoir and a deeply moving account of a young girl s sexual assault and its aftermath. It happens all the time she writes.

It s so simple what happened at st. Notes on a silencing is a ghastly account beautifully told of a teenage girl learning that people in power often value reputation above all else carla jean whitley bookpage starred review crawford plums her own life in this story of her time at the st. In notes on a silencing crawford emphasizes that the sexual assault she experienced was not unusual.