Girls Play Dead A lyrical and groundbreaking exploration of the misun­derstood ways women survive and forever carry trauma from the award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Jen Percy. “A groundbreaking exploration of women’s often shamed and silenced responses to sexual assault...Extensive, empathetic...A vital record of a little discussed aspect of women’s lived reality.”  —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Girls Play Dead reads like a novel, exquisitely rendered, and a kind of geography, mapping out the complexities of women’s experiences going ‘down below’ and the specific ways that they come to understand their altered bodies and minds.”  —Rachel Aviv, New York Times bestselling author of Strangers to Ourselves Hardcover 11/11/2025