While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up

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

â€œBingedÂ Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.â€ â€”Entertainment Weekly

A Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning reporterâ€™s gripping account of one young manâ€™s path to murderâ€”and a wake-up call forÂ mental health care in America
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On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly in loveâ€”Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years trying to find themselves and who eventually found each otherâ€”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.
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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 countryâ€”as well as an inspiring story of love and forgiveness. Culminating in Kalebuâ€™sÂ dangerous slide toward violenceâ€”observed by family members, police, mental health workers, lawyers, and judges, but stopped by no oneâ€”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.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-02-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-02-02
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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