“The things is,” Rosina says, “people don’t want to hear something that’ll make their lives more difficult, even if it’s the truth. How long would the town cling to their denial, trying to cover these boys’ crimes as if with some threadbare blanket? How long until enough is enough? A system that instead built a monument to their abusers’ crimes. Together with Rosina and Erin, Grace creates an anonymous group, “ the Nowhere Girls”, as a call to arms for all the girls who were forced to remain still, stifled, and quiet, their pain always passing unremarked, by a system who didn’t care. She refuses to falter into painful silence and let the truth of what had happened to Lucy die like a song with no one left to sing it. Now that Grace had named Lucy’s anguish, it hung from everything, clinging like spiderwebs, unavoidable. Grace’s classmates, Rosina Suarez, a Mexican-American queer punk rocker, and Erin DeLillo, a girl with Asperger’s, explain that the former occupant was Lucy, a girl who was driven out of town after she accused a group of popular jocks in her school of gang rape. Grace has moved to Prescott, Oregon, and finds words of searing agony and sorrow carved into the wall of her new room and carving their hurricane path through her mind, pushing everything out of its way.
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