PositiveMs.Pesta’s book is also peppered with personal anecdotes about her own short-lived gymnastics career, but the core of the story, and the interviews that anchor it, do apt justice to the saga of Nassar ... Nassar’s survivors were courageous to tell their stories, to Pesta and on the stand. The Girls honors that bravery. Pesta’s book makes clear the tragedy of a culture in which the bodies of women and girls are commodified and abused, and the losses they suffer personally and professionally in rape culture. In the #MeToo era, The Girls is a powerful addition to the nationwide conversations and reckonings happening around sexual abuse, harassment and violence.
