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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's gripping account of one young man's path to murder - and a wake-up demand mental healthcare in the us. On a summer time night in 2009 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people recently in love - Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years looking for themselves and who eventually found each other - and a young man on a dangerous emotional descent: Isaiah Kalebu, time 23, the kid of a faraway, authoritarian daddy and a mom with a family group record of mental health problems. All three pathways forever altered by way of a violent criminal offenses, all three experiences a wake-up call to the machine that didn't see the signs. On this riveting, probing, compassionate account of a murder in Seattle, Eli Sanders, who earned a Pulitzer Reward for his magazine coverage of the criminal offenses, offers a deeply reported family portrait in microcosm of the point out of mental healthcare in this country - as well as an inspiring story of love and forgiveness. Culminating in Kalebu's dangerous slide toward violence - noticed by family members, law enforcement officials, mental health personnel, law firms, and judges, but ended by nobody - While the town Slept is the story of a criminal offenses of opportunity and of the string of missed opportunities that made it possible. It shows what can occur whenever a disturbed person in society repeatedly falls through the cracks and, in the custom of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, is an indelible, human-level story, brilliantly advised, with the actual to inspire public change.
