The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts
Murder and Memory in an American City
New York : Scribner, 2016.
Format: Book
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description: vii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime--the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville, Texas,"--Amazon.com.
Contents:
An unmeasured feeling -- An education -- Pilgrim -- Letters from the edge -- The long shadow of small ghosts -- The quiet dead -- A corner in the good life -- Angela -- Don't read this chapter before going to bed -- After -- Good guys and bad guys -- Agua bendita (Holy Water) -- Belief -- The end of history illusion -- Place of no return -- In the garden -- Three graves together.
Subjects:
Murder -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies.
Children -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies.
Murder -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies.
Children -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies.
ISBN:
9781501104251
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRUE CRIME Til | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
TRUE CRIME Til | Edgewood | Nonfiction | In |