I’m a sucker for boarding school books, and this one takes place over the course of the school year at the all-girls fictional school Atwater. It’s told from the perspectives of various students, benchmarked by important school events. It’s a tumultuous year from the start. When freshmen arrive for orientation, yard signs all over town show the school’s famed clock tower and announce that “a rapist works here.”

Throughout the book, we learn more about the event that prompted those signs, as well as the activism that follows. Except no one knows who is responsible for all the mysterious activism.

All Girls dives into the girls boarding school culture, as well as questions of safety in the Me Too era.