A Murder Over A Girl
searing and complicated inquiry into gender identity, class, and race in America.”
―Booklist (starred review)
Do not miss on our next Ferenczi Center event next Thursday, the book lunch of “A murder Over a Girl” by ken Corbett.
Here are but a few of this highly critically acclaimed reviews:
Profound and disturbing, this heartbreaking testimony of our culture’s worst fissures suggests that understanding is the only way to heal.”
―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A Murder Over a Girl narrates a searing tragedy, meticulously laying out the aftermath of the crime, exposing the pathos not only of the victim, but also of the classmates, parents, jurors, lawyers, and others who had to grapple with the troubling nuance of the case. And in doing so Corbett unforgettably reveals the flaws of the American judicial system, the destructive influence of sensationalizing mass media, and the blindness of good intentions at the intersection of masculinity, grief, prejudice, and empathy.”
―Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of Far from the Tree
“One young teenager is dead. Another is a murderer. And all of our contemporary dividing lines–race, gender, class, orientation, homophobia, privilege, and fear of the unknown–are drawn in a California courtroom. Telling this devastating story with clarity, empathy, and insight, Ken Corbett brings his profound understanding of the minds of boys–their hopes, their dreams, their terrors, their longings–to bear in the service of making the unimaginable clear to us. This essential book will broaden your mind even as it breaks your heart.”
―Mark Harris, author of Pictures at A Revolution and Five Came Back