The long shadow of small ghosts
Subtitle: murder and memory in an American city
By: Laura Tillman
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781501104251
Subjects: Filicide; Murder; Case studies; Children
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: An unmeasured feeling; title: An education; title: Pilgrim; title: Letters from the edge; title: The long shadow of small ghosts; title: The quiet dead; title: A corner in the good life; title: Angela; title: Don't read this chapter before going to bed; title: After; title: Good guys and bad guys; title: Agua bendita (Holy Water); title: Belief; title: The end of history illusion; title: Place of no return; title: In the garden; title: Three graves together.