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

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

Tillman, Laura (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781501104305
  • ISBN: 9781501104275
  • ISBN: 150110425X
  • ISBN: 9781501104251
  • Physical Description: print
    vii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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Genre: True crime stories.

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Homer Public Library 364.1523 TIL (Text) 000133784 Nonfiction Available -

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