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The girls : an all-American town, a predatory doctor, and the untold story of the gymnasts who brought him down / Abigail Pesta.
From Abigail Pesta, an award-winning and respected investigative journalist, comes the inside story of how serial predator Larry Nassar got away with abusing hundreds of gymnasts for decades, and how a team of brave women, activists, and lawyers banded together to bring him down
Record details
- ISBN: 9781580058803 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xviii, 220 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Seal Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Nassar, Larry. Child molesters > United States. Child sexual abuse > United States. Sex crimes > United States. Sexual abuse victims > United States. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | 796.44083 Pes | 31681010161669 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The award-winning journalist and coauthor of How Dare the Sun Rise chronicles the story of how serial predator Larry Nassar got away with decades of abuse before a team of brave women banded together to stop him. 30,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"Larry Nassar, longtime doctor at Michigan State University and physician for the US Olympic gymnastics team, has been called one of the worst sexual predators in history. This is the inside story of how he got away with abusing hundreds of gymnasts for decades--and how a team of brave women, activists, and lawyers banded together to bring him down"-- - Baker & Taylor
Chronicles the story of how serial sexual predator Larry Nassar got away with decades of abuse before a team of brave women banded together to stop him. - Grand Central Pub
In this news-breaking narrative, decades of women who brought down sexual predator Larry Nassar offer groundbreaking new insight, with the first known survivor and many others sharing their stories exclusively for the first time.
We think of Larry Nassar as the despicable sexual predator of Olympic gymnasts -- but there is an astonishing, untold story. For decades, in a small-town gym in Michigan, he honed his manipulations on generations of aspiring gymnasts. Kids from the neighborhood. Girls with hopes of a college scholarship. Athletes and parents with a dream. In The Girls, these brave women for the first time describe Nassar's increasingly bold predations through the years, recount their warning calls unheeded, and demonstrate their resiliency in the face of a nightmare.
The Girls is a profound exploration of trust, ambition, betrayal, and self-discovery. Award-winning journalist Abigail Pesta unveils this deeply reported narrative at a time when the nation is wrestling with the implications of the MeToo movement. How do the women who grew up with Nassar reconcile the monster in the news with the man they once trusted? In The Girls, we learn that their answers to that wrenching question are as rich, insightful, and varied as the human experience itself.
