This work of nonfiction entitled Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town is a blistering expose researched and written by Jon Krakauer. In order to meet the text's two goals of providing a glimpse into the awful injustices visited upon victims of rape in America and of exploring the reasons why so few victims file police reports, Krakauer takes a deep and sustained look at the college town of Missoula, Montana and the hundreds of sexual assaults that were reported between 2010 and 2012, with very few of those ever ending in prosecution of the accused rapist. Over the course of the book, Krakauer explores themes such as injustice, the dangers of idolatry, and systemic misogyny.
"Straddling the top of the world, one foot in Tibet and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently at the vast sweep of earth b...
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Jon Krakauer