Book Review: The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati

The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati is a semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre—a brutal torturing and rape of two young women in 1975 at the hands of former students of Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno. Weighing in at over 1,200 pages, Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School