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Category: Amy Jo Burns
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From Steubenville to State College to Missoula, small towns often step into the spotlight where sex crimes are concerned. After the stark details get spun through the news cycle, the towns are left to themselves again, usually divided, impenitent, and often unable to determine what role the community itself played in perpetuating the violence or…
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An excerpt from CINDERLAND, Amy Jo Burns’s haunting memoir of growing up in a town that both worshipped and sacrificed its youth.
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