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The long shadow of small ghosts : murder and memory in an American city

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2016

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Format:	Book
Call Number:	364.1523 T577L 2016
Author:	Tillman, Laura, author.
Title:	The long shadow of small ghosts : murder and memory in an American city / Laura Tillman.
Edition:	First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Scribner, 2016. ©2016
Description:	vii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	"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.
Subjects:	Murder -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies. Filicide -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies. Children -- Texas -- Brownsville -- Case studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society TRUE CRIME / Murder / General.
Genre:	True crime stories.
Other Title:	OCLC Work Id http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1809131779
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.
LCCN:	2015039963
ISBN:	9781501104251 (hardcover) 150110425X (hardcover) * 9781501104275 (trade paper) * 9781501104305 (ebook)
Other Number:	913304046
Items available:	5
Copies owned:	5
Current Holds:	0

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