{"product_id":"while-the-city-slept-eli-sanders-9780143109518","title":"While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Binged \u003ci\u003eMaking a Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e? Try . . .  this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eWhile the City Slept \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Other Wes Moore \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, \u003c\/i\u003eis an indelible, human-level story, brilliantly told, with the potential to inspire social change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eli Sanders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143109510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143109518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d","brand":"Eli Sanders","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946225926399,"sku":"9780143109518","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f229750e-1a0f-41fd-892f-1d1017a5fa69.jpg?v=1681512113","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/while-the-city-slept-eli-sanders-9780143109518","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}