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A Murder over a Girl

Justice, Gender, Junior High

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A Murder over a Girl

By: Ken Corbett
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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 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.

©2016 Ken Corbett (P)2016 Random House Audio
Gender Studies LGBTQ+ Studies Murder Social Psychology & Interactions Sociology Mental Health Exciting Young Adult
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if you have any interest in gender, gay, transgender issues you will love this. ken handles such a heart breaking story with open eyes and an open heart. my heart breaks for Latisha King and I will speak her name.

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Didn't finish. Monotone reader. Too much fact, not enough details to bring you close to any of the characters. Not my cup of tea. I know it was a true story and a heartbreaker. Just didn't draw me in.

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