A review by sksrenninger
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

3.0

I do automatically assume a woman who says she has been sexually assaulted is telling the truth unless her story has been proven false (or more complicated). That being said, I would have liked a little more nuance into how a jury might have deliberated or what/how the accused boys viewed the events, or to read a more impartial representation of Kirsten Pabst's position. Perhaps, because I didn't need to be convinced that women are suffering and usually telling the truth, I wasn't the best audience for this book, but I felt like this aggressively one-sided story didn't do the situation justice and doesn't really contribute to the dialogue on sexual assault in the US. My favorite (if favorite is a word you can use when talking about rape) parts by far were the sections where Krakauer goes into Lisak's research on rapists. Horrifying, but enlightening.