{"product_id":"while-the-city-slept-isbn-9780143109518","title":"While the City Slept","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e’s 10 Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e’s 20 Notable Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Expertly crafted . . . [Sanders’] evenhanded reporting and emotional commitment to the story make for gripping reading.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A heartbreaking—and compelling—story from every angle . . . Americans have long been fascinated by true-crime stories, from Truman Capote’s 1966 masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, through this year’s binge-worthy TV series \u003ci\u003eMaking a Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e. The bad guy is always mesmerizing. What makes a person go to that dark side? Sanders works hard to provide the answers. . . . [He] does a terrific job of telling the life stories of all three principal characters.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] disturbing, sometimes-horrifying story of true crime and justice only partially served.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post, \u003c\/i\u003e“11 Books That Grab You from Page One”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Inspiring . . . From a harrowing crime, it draws powerful lessons for our mental health and criminal justice systems that can’t be ignored.” —\u003cb\u003eSister Helen Prejean, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDead Man Walking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An arresting narrative . . . Certainly a story worth telling with lessons well worth learning. . . . It’s heartbreaking all the way around.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Written with great sensitivity and even greater beauty.” —\u003cb\u003eJeff Hobbs, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gripping . . . Moving and unsettling . . . Told with incredible sensitivity.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWhile the City Slept \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the American landscape of a horrific crime. Eli Sanders, with a rare quality of attention, does this clearly and judiciously. Because of his outstanding reporting, we see not only the complex workings of one’s environment on the course of one’s life, but also how what we consider a tragedy is almost an inevitability—and how, of course, it doesn’t have to be.” —\u003cb\u003eAdrian Nicole LeBlanc, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRandom Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Compassionate . . . A meticulous indictment of the way America reckons with mental illness.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Engrossing, elegantly written . . . A story that we need to hear.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A gripping and sensitive account.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Riveting . . . Absorbing and meticulous.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Told with care, compassion, and the kind of details that will force you to catch your breath.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The author’s opening pages are among the most immediate and breathtaking in modern true-crime literature, as evocative as any moment of \u003ci\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eHelter Skelter.\u003c\/i\u003e” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Astonishing . . . Pair with Jill Leovy’s \u003ci\u003eGhettoside\u003c\/i\u003e for powerful . . . analysis of the failures of our criminal justice system. . . . It’s heartbreaking, infuriating, required reading.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An unflinching portrait of the human casualties of one city’s and, by extrapolation, our country’s overburdened health-care and judicial systems.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gripping . . . Moving . . . Sanders’s meticulous narrative [is] a disturbing indictment of society’s neglect of the mentally ill.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book is important. . . . Sanders writes with an uncommon empathy. . . . On both a human level and a policy level, \u003ci\u003eWhile the City Slept \u003c\/i\u003emakes a vital contribution and deserves a wide and receptive readership.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNWLawyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The great achievement of this book is that it shows how any crime is ultimately a failure of systems and of citizens, and that to some degree we are all complicit when a person who needs help is cast aside. To show empathy for a criminal, especially a criminal who has committed such a violent act, ennobles the process and purpose of journalism.” —\u003cb\u003eDan Zak, author of \u003ci\u003eAlmighty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Superb, pulse-pounding . . . Moving and mesmerizing . . . Grimly fascinating . . . Hair-raising . . . Sanders . . . is extremely sure-handed in his recreations of the lives, loves, and losses of his protagonists. . . . Every public official in a position to effect change in the mental health system ought to read this book and reflect deeply on its lessons. The rest of us can simply be moved to the tears summoned by the enduring love, tentative hope, and inconsolable pain of this searing human tragedy.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookBrowse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book is wholly remarkable, and the heartbreak it delivers is a heartbreak we all share responsibility for. . . . Sanders has a deft hand and a sensitive approach and avoids the sensational. . . . [He] has given us the tools for a needed conversation, and it is high time that we started it.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEli Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e is the associate editor of Seattle’s weekly newspaper \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2012 for his reporting on the murder of Teresa Butz. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe American Prospect\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. Sanders lives in Seattle.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304981942501,"sku":"NP9780143109518","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143109518.jpg?v=1767744100","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/while-the-city-slept-isbn-9780143109518","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}