While the City Slept A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America

Eli Sanders

eBook - 2016

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment WeeklyFinalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact CrimeFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeA 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 his...tory of mental illness. All three paths forever altered by a violent crime, all three stories a wake-up call to the system that... more