RaveBrooklyn RailI am moved by the way Percy’s own PTSD informed the storytelling in Girls Play Dead. The curiosity, searching for patterns in her reporting, finding recognition in other’s stories, and circling back to the self, her own memory. The structure of the book mirrors the intricacy of a mind healing, not by any means linear. Girls Play Dead doesn’t ask why abuse happens, but how we survive violation, how we respond to fear, and how we tell our stories.
