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Title The long shadow of small ghosts : murder and memory in an American city / by Laura Tillman.
Author Tillman, Laura, author.
Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2016.
©2016
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  364.1523 TIL    Check Shelves
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description vii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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 "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 True crime stories.
ISBN 9781501104251 (hardcover) : $26.00
150110425X (hardcover)
9781501104275 (trade paper)