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The girls an all-American town, a predatory doctor, and the untold story of the gymnasts who brought him down

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, r...

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Main Author: Pesta, Abigail (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Seal Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Nassar, Larry.
Child sexual abuse > United States.
Child molesters > United States.
Sex crimes > United States.
Sexual abuse victims > United States.
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Summary: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
Physical Description:xviii, 220 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220).
ISBN:9781580058803
1580058809
Author Notes:Abigail Pesta is an award-winning journalist and author who has lived and worked around the world, from London to Hong Kong. She is the coauthor of How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child , which was named among the best books of 2017 by the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, and many others. Her investigative and feature reporting has appeared in The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , NBC News, Cosmopolitan , New York Magazine , Marie Claire , The Atlantic , Newsweek, and many others.She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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