There is a question embedded in every crime story: who is this story for? In most such narratives, the answer centers on the detective, the killer, the institutional machinery of investigation. The Buffalo Butcher gives a different answer.
This story belongs to the five women who refuse to accept that their safety doesn’t matter to anyone with authority. Set in 1901 Buffalo during the Pan-American Exposition — a moment when America was performing its belief in progress at a scale impossible to ignore — Brighton shows us exactly who was excluded from that promise and what they had to do to survive its exclusion.
Brighton has written a book that takes seriously the question of whose humanity counts, and answers it the right way.
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