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"1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumor proves false, the story that unfolds, one that Cooper will follow for ten years, is even more complex: a tale of gender inequality in academia, a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims. WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE is a memoir of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history"--… (más)
after I finished this book 'sun bleached flies' came on my Spotify randomly and I had to fight to not sob like a maniac. Both a beautiful biography, incisive memoir, and a piece of writing about women in academia that in parts made me so angry I had to get up and pace around the room to calm myself. Will be recommending to everyone I know!! ( )
This is the first true crime book I've read that doesn't read like a true crime story. The murder was solved in 2017 using modern DNA testing yet the book wades through over 400 pages of the story of Jane's life, Becky's life, and everyone involved in Jane's life at the time of the murder. It's an interesting read but casting doubt on some of the individuals surrounding Jane at the time became tiresome so - I admit it - I went to Wiki to find out the rest of the story. When on page 317 we were still hearing about possible murderers, I had to get the rest of the story. ( )
A very thoroughly researched true crime story that sucked me in from the first page. There are so many elements to this story that are fascinating: a mysterious death of a young woman - violent murder! Harvard in 1969 at the height of counterculture. Archeological digs and Indiana Jones-like professors as possible suspects. Police corruption. Misogyny. A curious undergrad that decides to dive into the research and tell the story. Any true crime fans should check this out. Highly recommend! ( )
I'm so torn about this. The unsolved 1969 murder of graduate student Jane Britton is definitely something that deserved more attention; the attitudes expressed about Jane both before and after her death potentially provide an interesting way to explore institutional/system failures and prejudice at a major university. To be fair to Becky Cooper, I'm sure that she was genuinely invested in finding out what happened to Britton. But even with all her careful caveats about the problematic nature of the true crime genre, something about Cooper's narrative approach/affect throughout felt disingenuous to me. Add to that some real structural issues and a lack of much by way of original analysis, and this is a misfire for me. ( )
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For we live in several worlds, each truer than the one it encloses, and itself false in relation to the one which encompasses it. [...] Truth lies in a progressive dilating of the meaning [...] up to the point at which it explodes. -Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques
The primary characteristic of the deepest reaches of the past, especially for the sort of observer whose paramount concerns are those of the present, is the accommodating silence found there. The quieter an epoch on its own terms, the more loudly it can be made to speak, in the way of a ventriloquist's dummy, for ours. -Gideon Lewis-Kraus, "Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths--or Falling into Old Traps," New York Times Magazine
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For my parents
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It was the warmest it had been in more than a week, but Bostonians turning on their morning radio broadcast woke up to gale warnings along the coast.
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For just a moment, I let myself believe that she's speaking to me, that this is her answer to the letter I left on her grave. In it, she bids me: "Be my chronicler, so the tale of the Brit is told throughout the land, or at least that one person remembers me the way I am instead of the way they see me."
"1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumor proves false, the story that unfolds, one that Cooper will follow for ten years, is even more complex: a tale of gender inequality in academia, a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims. WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE is a memoir of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history"--
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