We Keep the Dead Close : : a Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

Locations
Call Number: 364.152 Co, Adult Book / Nonfiction / True Crime / Cooper, Becky
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	364.152 Co	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	364.152 Co	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	364.152 Co	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	364.152 Co	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / True Crime / Cooper, Becky	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / True Crime / Cooper, Becky	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / True Crime / Cooper, Becky	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / True Crime / Cooper, Becky	4-week checkout	On Shelf

The story -- The girl -- The rumor -- The myth -- The echo -- The legacy -- The resolution.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review
Booklist Review
Publishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Engrossing Read submitted by gbrandol on July 14, 2023, 7:00am I've been reading a lot of true crime, and this one differs from others in being focused on a single murder and going very in-depth into the investigation of the murder. Satisfying, because they do find the killer.