Scan barcode
A review by ashleymontulli1970
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
5.0
In this memoir a judge speaks about causal chain, a path of influence starting with a root and branching out to the symptoms. Once you decide that, he explains, the point of cause, you've decided everything. That becomes the story.
But how then can we call that truth? To determine a beginning and call that The Story which then becomes the truth?
Alexandria blew my mind with her compassion and inner conflict. This is a raw and sometimes difficult read emotionally so I can't begin to understand how it must have been for the author to live this.
There are two stories here, the author's and Ricky Langley's. The way the two stories are woven together is deft and delicate.
This left me rethinking everything from the death penalty to forgiveness.
But how then can we call that truth? To determine a beginning and call that The Story which then becomes the truth?
Alexandria blew my mind with her compassion and inner conflict. This is a raw and sometimes difficult read emotionally so I can't begin to understand how it must have been for the author to live this.
There are two stories here, the author's and Ricky Langley's. The way the two stories are woven together is deft and delicate.
This left me rethinking everything from the death penalty to forgiveness.