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While the city sleptEli Sanders

While the city slept

2016326 pages
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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's gripping account of one young man's path to murder--and a wake-up call for mental health care in America On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly in love--Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years trying to find themselves and who eventually found each other--and a young man on a dangerous psychological descent: Isaiah Kalebu, age twenty-three, the son of a distant, authoritarian father and a mother with a family history of mental illness. All three paths forever altered by a violent…

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2 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2017
    Penguin Books · 336 pages · 9780143109518
  • Other · English · 2016
    Viking · 316 pages · 9780670015719
RapeMurderLesbiansMentally ill offendersCrimes againstCase studiesTRUE CRIME / Murder / GeneralSOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology