Paul's, whose reckoning is still to come.
Her investigation looks beyond the sprawling playing fields and soaring chapel towers of crucibles of power like St. This revelation launched Crawford on an extraordinary inquiry into the ways gender, privilege, and power shaped her experience as a girl at the gates of America's elite. The slander, innuendo, and lack of adult concern that Crawford had experienced as a student hadn't been imagined as the effects of trauma, after all: these were the actions of a school that prized its reputation above anything, even a child. Now a wife, mother, and writer living on the other side of the country, Crawford learned that police had uncovered astonishing proof of an institutional silencing years before, and that unnamed powers were still trying to block her case. 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. Her criminal case file reopened, she saw for the first time evidence that corroborated her memories. Still, when detectives asked for victims to come forward, she sent a note. Paul's decades before, when she was fifteen. 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. 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
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