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Author Johnson, Elle, author.

Title The officer's daughter : a memoir of family and forgiveness / Elle Johnson.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  364.1523 JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  B JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B JOHNSON, ELLE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 JOH    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.1523 JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  BIOG JOHNSON, ELLE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-JOHNSON, L.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 213 pages ; 24 cm
Summary The author describes the life-altering tragedy she experienced as a teen, when her cousin was murdered in a robbery gone wrong and explains why she needed to meet one of the killers thirty years later at his parole hearing.
As a teenager, Johnson lived in Queens with her family; her popular, cool cousin Karen in the Bronx. Her father was a highly protective, at times overbearing, parole officer; her uncle, Karen's dad, was a homicide detective. When Karen was shot and killed in a robbery gone wrong at the Burger King where she worked, the subsequent trials and media circus marked the end of Elle's childhood innocence. Thirty years later, living in Los Angeles and working as a television writer, Johnson learned one of Karen's killers was eligible for parole, and her older brother asked Elle to write a letter to the parole board arguing against his release. Here she with honesty what parents can and cannot do to protect their children, the reverberations of violence on survivors' lives, and the overwhelming power of forgiveness, even in the face of unspeakable tragedy.
Subject Murder -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Johnson, Lois (Television writer and producer) -- Family.
Forgiveness.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Forgiveness. (OCoLC)fst00932854
Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
True crime stories.
Case studies.
ISBN 9780063011328
0063011328
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