We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Audiobook)

from msf59

“There are no true stories; there are only facts, and the stories we tell ourselves about those facts.” In January 1969, Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department would be found brutally murdered in her Cambridge apartment. The murder was never ...

from Darcia

Turns out, ivy league college politics isn't much different than government politics: power trips, narcissism, cliques, and misogyny abound. We Keep the Dead Close is a mix of true crime, investigative journalism, and memoir, similar in style to I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Becky Cooper immersed her...

from lisapeet

A very meta true crime/memoir—the crime being the 50-year-old murder of a young Harvard archeology student, and the meta part the author's nuanced interrogation of her own motives, assumptions, and context for pursuing the case. As Cooper digs deeper into the murdered girl's story she turns up an...

from spinsterrevival

This is an amazingly engaging read, and I'm so glad that I didn't do any googling while listening (also the author does a good job at narrating which was a plus). Jane Britton's story and murder made me angry at men, academia, and Harvard itself (possibly in that order). The author weaves togethe...

from spinsterrevival

This is an amazingly engaging read, and I'm so glad that I didn't do any googling while listening (also the author does a good job at narrating which was a plus). Jane Britton's story and murder made me angry at men, academia, and Harvard itself (possibly in that order). The author weaves togethe...