What We Saw

An engrossing examination of guilt and innocence held by a group of friends at a small-town house party where a girl has been raped—and the truth has been covered up.

The party last Saturday night is a bit of a blur.

Kate Weston can piece together most of the bash at John Doone’s house: shots with Stacey Stallard, Ben Cody taking her keys and getting her home early—the feeling that maybe Ben’s becoming more than just a friend.

But when a picture of Stacey passed out over Doone’s friend’s shoulder appears online the next morning, Kate suspects she doesn’t have all the details. Facts that can’t be ignored begin to surface. A terrible crime has been committed, and every fact that emerges leads back to the same question: Where was Ben when it happened?

This story—inspired by real events—from critically acclaimed YA memoirist Aaron Hartzler takes an unflinching look at silence as a form of complicity. It’s a book about the high stakes of speaking up, and the razor-thin line between responsibility and exemption that so often gets blurred, one hundred and forty characters at a time.

Ficção / Jovem adulto