Missoula

Jon Krakauer pored through stacks of court transcripts, recordings, police reports and otherwise dry documentation and manages to pull together a compelling, readable story. It's just the facts and the facts are hair pullingly frustrating. The legal system is stacked against sexual assault victims, and in college towns where sports teams can take on an almost mythic import, it's hard not feel a hopeless sense of injustice at how these things play out on an all too frequent basis.