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. |
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"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.
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Filicide -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies.
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Children -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies.
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Genre/Form |
True crime stories.
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ISBN |
9781501104251 (hardcover) $26.00 |
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150110425X (hardcover) |
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9781501104275 (trade paper) |
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