MISSOULA, Mont. — This town is bracing for a book. The local prosecutor wrote an urgent letter to its publishers trying to delay its release. Book sellers are taking orders for copies that wait in sealed boxes, ready to be opened on Tuesday. Some people are dreading its revelations about rape in their football-loving college town. Others are glad: Tell the story, they say, the louder the better.
“So much of it was hushed up,” said Tess Fahlgren, 24, who works at Fact and Fiction, a local bookstore that plans to donate proceeds from book sales to sexual-assault response centers.