While the city slept : a love lost to violence and a young man's descent into madness / Eli Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanders, Eli, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kalebu, Isaiah.

Murder--Washington (State)--Seattle--Case studies.

Murder.

Rape--Washington (State)--Seattle--Case studies.

Rape.

Mentally ill offenders--Washington (State)--Seattle--Case studies.

Mentally ill offenders.

Lesbians--Crimes against--Washington (State)--Seattle--Case studies.

Lesbians.

Lesbians--Crimes against.

Washington (State)--Seattle.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

316 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, [2016]

Summary:

"A 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 history of mental illness. All three paths forever altered by a violent crime, all three stories a wake-up call to the system that failed to see the signs. In this riveting, probing, compassionate account of a murder in Seattle, Eli Sanders, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the crime, offers a deeply reported portrait in microcosm of the state of mental health care in this country--as well as an inspiring story of love and forgiveness. Culminating in Kalebu's dangerous slide toward violence--observed by family members, police, mental health workers, lawyers, and judges, but stopped by no one--While the City Slept is the story of a crime of opportunity and of the string of missed opportunities that made it possible. It shows what can happen when a disturbed member of society repeatedly falls through the cracks, and in the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, is an indelible, human-level story, brilliantly told, with the potential to inspire social change"-- Provided by publisher.

"A 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 history of mental illness. All three paths forever altered by a violent crime, all three stories a wake-up call to the system that failed to see the signs. In this riveting, probing, compassionate account of a murder in Seattle, Eli Sanders, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the crime, offers a deeply reported portrait, in microcosm, of the state of mental health care in this country--as well as an inspiring story of love and forgiveness. Culminating in an account of Kalebu's dangerous slide toward violence--observed by family members, police, mental health workers, lawyers, and judges, but stopped by no one--While the City Slept is the story of a crime of opportunity and of the string of missed opportunities that made it possible. It shows what can happen when a disturbed member of society repeatedly falls through the cracks, and in the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, is an indelible human-level story, brilliantly told, with the potential to inspire social change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue: South Rose Street

Teresa and Jennifer

Capture

Isaiah

Danger to self and others

Threshold of competence

The trial

Epilogue: the river.

Other Format:

Online version: Sanders, Eli, author. While the city slept

ISBN:

9780670015719

0670015717

OCLC:

931476633

Online:

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