The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06ZY3X5HM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Crystal K. said A truly unforgettable book.. Over the last year I have been watching the critical acclaim for this debut stack up, and with good reason. Marzano masterfully weaves together personal history and the history of a child's tragic murder into a suspenseful and moving true crime drama. She structures the book with extraordinary skill, haunting prose and the precision of an expert lawyer. I ached for the people in this book, for the sometimes awful complexities of life and the terrible things we humans do to each other.. "It takes us on a journey the writer embarked upon as her intellectual and moral values collided with a painful family legacy of" according to maryg. This book is gorgeously written and deeply honest. It takes us on a journey the writer embarked upon as her intellectual and moral values collided with a painful family legacy of abuse and silence. I am generally a slow reader and could not put this book down. I then bought it on Audible so that I could listen again, knowing I wanted to simply hear some of the sentences out loud. Marzano-Lesnevich grapples with big questions and big pain in way that will sit with readers as they ponder what they have read, as well as how its themes touch their own lives. As with any great book, it is hard to wr. A truly brilliant book. Fascinating, thought provoking, and a great page turner. Intimate and interior, and based in the family. Marzano-Lesnevich began Harvard Law school with a conviction that she was against the death penalty, but when she interned in a Louisiana law firm and began to review her first death row case - when she learned more about the pedophile - she shocked herself by wanting him dead. She expertly weaves in the story of her own childhood to allow the reader to understand her reaction. The Fact of a Body makes a reader examine their own biases and recognize how we all come at things from our own per
And by examining the details of Ricky's case, she is forced to face her own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets and reckon with a past that colors her view of Ricky's crime. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper and deeper into the case. An intellectual and emotional thriller that is also a different kind of murder mystery, The Fact of a Body is an audiobook not only about how the story of one crime was constructed - but about how we grapple with our own personal histories. Along the way it tackles questions about the nature of forgiveness and if a single narrative can ever really contain something as definitive as the truth. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes - the moment she hears him speak of his crimes - she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Crime, even the darkest and most unsayable acts, can happen to any one of us. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But another surprise awaits: She wasn't the only one who saw her life in Ricky's. This groundbreaking, heart-stopping work, 10 years in the making, shows how the law is more personal than we would like to