Lacy Crawford presents a memoir of the 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. Crawford explores the channels of shame and guilt, witness and silencing, that dictate who can speak and who is heard in American society. This coming-of-age story wrestles with an essential question for our time: what telling of a survivor's story will finally force a remedy?

Traces the author's healing journey after a traumatizing sexual assault at infamous St. Paul's boarding school, describing how she helped police uncover proof of the school's institutionalized mandate of silence.