num_pages: 224
description: Based on Thernstrom's article in "The New Yorker", here is the complete story of the murder-suicide that shocked Harvard. Drawing on the diaries kept by the murderer, Thernstrom constructs the inner life of a troubled girl whose cultural differences fueled her isolation and desperation. A gripping work, "Halfway Heaven" raises profound questions about the nature of attachment, female friendship, and the power of loneliness to transform love into destruction.
language: English
title: Halfway heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder
titlecomplete: Halfway heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder
genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, True Crime
ratings_count: 357
publisher: Doubleday