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Author Tillman, Laura, author.

Title The long shadow of small ghosts : murder and memory in an American city / Laura Tillman.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2016.
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  364.1523 TILLMAN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 TILLMAN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 TILLMAN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  364.1523 TILLLMAN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  364.152 TIL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.1523 TIL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 T46    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.1523 TILLMAN    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 TIL    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  364.1523 TIL    Check Shelf

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description vii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Summary A personal investigation into the causes, effects and communal toll of the brutal murders of three young children by their parents in 2003 Brownsville, Texas, explores the questions the case raised about poverty, mental illness, the death penalty and the proposed demolition of the apartment building where the tragedy occurred.
"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.
Subject Murder -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies.
Filicide -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies.
Children -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies.
Genre/Form True crime stories.
ISBN 9781501104251 (hardcover) $26.00
150110425X (hardcover)
9781501104275 (trade paper)
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