2022: An important chronicle of a decisive moment in our nation's history

I thought that reading this account almost five years after it happened would bring to light facts and information that I had forgotten about the story when it broke in October of 2017. Turns out that was more of a flashbulb memory than I had originally thought, and there wasn't really anything new that this book provided if you can remember the original article. I have an extremely vivid memory of reading it aloud to my father while we were in the middle of a cross country road trip.

One thing that I did not know going into it was how much Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's story would contribute to this book. I thought we would wrap up before the Kavanaugh hearings, but it really wasn't that long after the Weinstein story broke. Reading this account did make me cry on behalf of the optimism that 25 year old me held in her heart, thinking that Dr. Ford's testimony would actually help. Hah! Here we are now, and with Amy Coney Barrett to boot.

I have to admit, I was pretty disappointed with the lack of regard for Tarana Burke and her work with #MeToo in this book. I know that not every book can cover everything, and that the focus of the investigation was really more on the women coming forward in regards to Weinstein specifically, but this book wasn't published until 2019. That was certainly enough time to acknowledge how influential Burke's work was in the #MeToo movement. That was really a white woman blindspot that I would have liked to see acknowledged more in this book.