Thirteen Girls
Author | : Mikita Brottman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1467521973 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781467521970 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: THIRTEEN GIRLS is a casebook that plumbs the annals of "true crime," delivering thirteen bracing stories of murder and its emotional fallout. Each fictionalized narrative is based on a real victim of a serial killer, and each is told from a different perspective -- a mother, a shrink, a cop, a sister -- to reveal the stark afterlife of human carnage. Leveraging the emotional power of personal testimony, Mikita Brottman presents an unblinking psychological portrait of murder, a dark descent that illuminates our cultural obsession with violence and the need for "closure" that persists in the hearts and minds of those who live in its wake. - from back cover.