A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High
Published by Penguin Random House Audio
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate
On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed his classmate, Larry King, who had recently begun to call himself "Leticia" and wear makeup and jewelry to school.
Profoundly shaken by the news, and unsettled by media coverage that sidestepped the issues of gender identity and of race integral to the case, psychologist Ken Corbett traveled to LA to attend the trial. As visions of victim and perpetrator were woven and unwoven in the theater of the courtroom, a haunting picture emerged not only of the two young teenagers, but also of spectators altered by an atrocity and of a community that had unwittingly gestated a murder. Drawing on firsthand observations, extensive interviews and research, as well as on his decades of academic work on gender and sexuality, Corbett holds each murky facet of this case up to the light, exploring the fault lines of memory and the lacunae of uncertainty behind facts. Deeply compassionate, and brimming with wit and acute insight, A Murder Over a Girl is a riveting and stranger-than-fiction drama of the human psyche.
Related to A Murder Over a Girl
Related audiobooks
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Linspired: The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Lin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBattle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Quarry Girls: A Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies' Case Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Obsession: The FBI's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of Killers, Rapists, and Stalkers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sole Survivor: The Inspiring True Story of Coming Face to Face with the Infamous Railroad Killer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates the New Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The BTK Murders: Inside the "Bind Torture Kill" Case that Terrified America's Heartland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murder of Maggie Hume: Cold Case in Battle Creek Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robert Kennedy: JFK: The Death of Marilyn Monroe: Who Didn't Kill Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Americans in China: Encounters with the People's Republic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sons of Camelot Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Murder For You
While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ghosts That Haunt Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Cruel: The Chilling True Story of America's Most Sadistic Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If You Really Loved Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Obsession: The FBI's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of Killers, Rapists, and Stalkers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stranger Beside Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-blooded Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trigger: Narratives of the American Shooter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Murder Over a Girl
0 ratings0 reviews