The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts (ePub)
Murder and Memory in an American City
(Sprache: Englisch)
A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city...Mature and thoughtful...A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalismunsettling in the extreme but written with confidence...
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A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city...Mature and thoughtful...A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalismunsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texasone of America's poorest citiesJohn Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already run down, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed.
In 2008, journalist Laura Tillman covered the story for The Brownsville Herald. The questions it raised haunted her and set her on a six-year inquiry into the larger significance of such acts, ones so difficult to imagine or explain that their perpetrators are often dismissed as monsters alien to humanity. Tillman spoke with the lawyers who tried the case, the family's neighbors and relatives and teachers, even one of the murderers: John Allen Rubio himself, whom she corresponded with for years and ultimately met in person. Her investigation is a dogged attempt to understand what happened, a review of the psychological, sociological and spiritual explanations for the crime...a meditation on the death penalty and on the city of Brownsville Star Tribune (Minneapolis).
The result is a brilliant exploration of some of our age's most important social issues and a beautiful, profound meditation on the truly human forces that drive them. This thought-provoking...book exemplifies provocative long-form journalism that does not settle for easy answers (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texasone of America's poorest citiesJohn Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already run down, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed.
In 2008, journalist Laura Tillman covered the story for The Brownsville Herald. The questions it raised haunted her and set her on a six-year inquiry into the larger significance of such acts, ones so difficult to imagine or explain that their perpetrators are often dismissed as monsters alien to humanity. Tillman spoke with the lawyers who tried the case, the family's neighbors and relatives and teachers, even one of the murderers: John Allen Rubio himself, whom she corresponded with for years and ultimately met in person. Her investigation is a dogged attempt to understand what happened, a review of the psychological, sociological and spiritual explanations for the crime...a meditation on the death penalty and on the city of Brownsville Star Tribune (Minneapolis).
The result is a brilliant exploration of some of our age's most important social issues and a beautiful, profound meditation on the truly human forces that drive them. This thought-provoking...book exemplifies provocative long-form journalism that does not settle for easy answers (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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Laura Tillman
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- Autor: Laura Tillman
- 2016, 256 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN-10: 1501104306
- ISBN-13: 9781501104305
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.04.2016
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