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Sto caricando le informazioni... Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earthdi Annette McGivney
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Too often the story of homocide victims go untold. In this book the journalist uses three viewpoints in an attempt to unwrap the cause of the murder of a Japanese tourist. The result is a combinaton murder mystery, social commentary, and memoir. The detail she includes is fascinating. The conclusions are not totally satisfactory, but such is life. McGivney reported a long piece on the homicide for Backpacker while working as the magazine’s Southwest editor and as a journalism professor at Northern Arizona University. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Tomomi Hanamure, a Japanese citizen who loved exploring the rugged wilderness of the American West, was killed on her birthday May 8, 2006. She was stabbed 29 times as she hiked to Havasu Falls on the Havasupai Indian Reservation at the bottom of Grand Canyon. Her killer was an 18-year old Havasupai youth named Randy Redtail Wescogame who had a history of robbing tourists and was addicted to meth. It was the most brutal murder ever recorded in Grand Canyon's history."--Amazon.com. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The second thread is that of the murderer, Billy Wescogame, a Havasupai youth growing up in a broken family on a tiny reservation where drugs and alcohol were the chief forms of recreation. It's a fascinating look at the Havasupai tribe, living on their tiny reservation on the bottom of the Grand Canyon and the not-so-surprising wrongs inflicted on them and their culture. Author McGivney touches on how historical wrongs to a group of people can create a culture of disrespect and abuse, handed down through generations.
The third thread is that of the author, Annette McGivney.
As an editor of Outside magazine, McGivney clearly identifies with Tomoni's love of hiking and the west. Unfortunately, investigating the murderer's childhood, brought up McGivney's own buried memories of childhood abuse. Her breakdown as she investigates incidents that fall a bit too close for her psyche's comfort is intriguing, but is it a part of the story she sets out to tell? Many readers prefer than an author not insert herself into an investigative tale. Since I enjoy psychology, I found it interesting. Other readers may feel that the author's story takes away from the investigation of Tomoni and her murderer. ( )