"And it's sort of up to Kate to figure out what happened, and then if she'll speak up about it or not." "There are all of these voices telling her what she should do, what she should think to lay low the town circles the wagons around these star athletes," Hartzler says. Its narrator, Kate, used to be one of the victim's best friends. His 2015 book What We Saw was directly inspired by the Steubenville case. Hartzler is one of many young adult novelists responding to that national conversation. They also raised a question for author Aaron Hartzler, who writes novels for young adults: "What must it be like to be coming of age sexually in the midst of a national conversation about rape culture and consent?" How?Īll those stories have helped intensify the conversation about sexual assault at colleges and in high schools. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title What We Saw Author Aaron Hartzler
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