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ekarcha's review against another edition
5.0
A lot of reviewers seem put off by Rule’s descriptions of Delaware - its small town-like suburbs and city neighborhoods, its incredibly close knit political and professional society, its history as a tiny coastal colonial area. A native Delawarean who myself remembers seeing this case and trial on the front page of the News Journal every morning as a kid, I have to argue that her background feels necessary for people unfamiliar with the state to understand. Everyone knows everyone else. Everyone has connections. Politically it’s still very much an old boys club because people stick with the familiar, especially in the old school Italian and Irish Catholic communities of Wilmington. And that feels crucial to how the case impacted the state and vice versa - how Capano so often went out of state to Philadelphia to hide his dinner dates from anyone who would recognize him. I think Rule did an amazing job laying out the background for outsiders of the small town feel of my home state, a very important part of the story in itself.