{"product_id":"carrie-carolyn-coco-my-friend-her-murder-and-an-obsession-with-the-unthinkable-9781638930464","title":"Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and penetrating prose to the 2016 murder of her friend Carolyn Bush, examining the multi-faceted reasons for her death―personal and societal, avoidable and inevitable―as \"nuanced and subtly intimate\" (NPR) as her lauded essay collection, \u003ci\u003eSunshine State\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the night of September 28, 2016, twenty-five-year-old Carolyn Bush was brutally stabbed to death in her New York City apartment by her roommate Render Stetson-Shanahan, leaving friends and family of both reeling. In life, Carolyn was a gregarious, smart-mouthed aspiring poet, who had seemingly gotten along well with Render, a reserved art handler. Where had it gone so terribly wrong? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the question that has plagued acclaimed author Sarah Gerard and driven her obsessive pursuit to understand this horrific tragedy. In Sarah's exploration of Carolyn's life and death, she spent thousands of hours interviewing Carolyn's and Render's friends and family, poring over court documents and news media, reading obscure writings and internet posts, and attending Carolyn's memorials and Render's trial. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat emerged from Sarah's relentless instinct to follow a story and its characters to their darkest ends is a book that is at once a striking homage to Carolyn's life, a chilling excavation of a brutal crime, and a captivating whydunit with a shocking conclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zando\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781638930464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarah Gerard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44145911627957,"sku":"9781638930464","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_062ae956-9bc3-463f-a5de-bd51a59c91c1.jpg?v=1715699088","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/carrie-carolyn-coco-my-friend-her-murder-and-an-obsession-with-the-unthinkable-9781638930464","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}