Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
"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"--
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Transsexual youth, Murder, School shootings, Transsexual students, High school students, Transgender youth, Case studies, Murder, california, Transsexuals, Transgender people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Oxnard, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, New York Times reviewedPeople
Brandon David McInerneyPlaces
California, OxnardShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Murder over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High
2016, Holt & Company, Henry
in English
0805099212 9780805099218
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
A murder over a girl: justice, gender, junior high
2016, Picador, Henry Holt and Co.
in English
- First edition.
0805099204 9780805099201
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Source records
marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC recordBetter World Books record
Better World Books record
Library of Congress MARC record
Internet Archive item record
Promise Item
marc_columbia MARC record
Promise Item
marc_nuls MARC record
Links outside Open Library
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?March 7, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
August 7, 2021 | Edited by New York Times Bestsellers Bot | Add NYT review links |
September 21, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
August 16, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
July 19, 2019 | Created by MARC Bot | import new book |