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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.

Summary:

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.

For decades, in a small-town gym in Michigan, Larry Nassar 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. Pesta describes Nassar's increasingly bold predations through the years, recounts their warning calls unheeded, and demonstrates their resiliency in the face of a nightmare. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9781580058803
ISBN: 1580058809
Physical Description: xviii, 220 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Seal Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220).
Formatted Contents Note:	The dream -- The town -- How it began -- The coach -- Goodbye to all that -- The disbelieved -- The scream -- The seduction -- How kids think -- The club -- The con -- The final act -- An epic fail -- The board -- The poker game -- Justice -- The memory -- Freedom -- Facing the truth -- The family -- The teen warriors -- The courtroom -- The army of survivors.