Like many people in town, Cathy Scribner, a hospice chaplain who has lived here for 10 years, said her “back went up” when she first saw the title.
The book is being released weeks after Rolling Stone retracted a discredited article describing a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, and offers a 350-page counterargument to assertions that large percentages of rape claims are false. The new book offers a searing view into campus sexual assaults, some by football players from the University of Montana’s beloved Grizzlies, and how victims were treated by the local justice system. Dialogue is good.”Īll of Missoula is talking about “Missoula,” a new book by Jon Krakauer, whose previous best sellers recounted fatal adventures up Mount Everest and into the Alaskan wilderness. “So much of it was hushed up,” said Tess Fahlgren, 24, who works at Fact and Fiction, a local bookstore that plans to donate proceeds from book sales to sexual-assault response centers. Others are glad: Tell the story, they say, the louder the better. Some people are dreading its revelations about rape in their football-loving college town. Book sellers are taking orders for copies that wait in sealed boxes, ready to be opened on Tuesday. The local prosecutor wrote an urgent letter to its publishers trying to delay its release.
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