Where The Girls Were is the debut novel for Kate Schatz, MFA recipient. KQED says “Schatz comes at this novel with real feminist bona fides…[she] shows how silence and secrecy, especially within a family, allow people to make the same mistakes generation after generation…Not long ago, we might have read Where the Girls Were and remarked on how far we had come. Now, we will read Where the Girls Were and wonder just how much of our future will resemble the darkest periods of our past.”