The Events of October: Murder-Suicide on a Small Campus Contributor(s): Griffin, Gail (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814334725 ISBN-13: 9780814334720 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $25.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Family & Relationships | Abuse - Domestic Partner Abuse - Social Science | Women's Studies |
Dewey: 364.152 |
LCCN: 2010007829 |
Series: Painted Turtle |
Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.39" W x 8.95" (1.11 lbs) 336 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: On a Sunday night during Homecoming weekend in 1999, Neenef Odah lured his ex-girlfriend, Maggie Wardle, to his dorm room at Kalamazoo College and killed her at close range with a shotgun before killing himself. In the wake of this tragedy, the community of the small, idyllic liberal arts college struggled to characterize the incident, which was even called "the events of October" in a campus memo. In this engaging and intimate examination of Maggie and Neenef's deaths, author and Kalamazoo College professor Gail Griffin attempts to answer the lingering question of "how could this happen?" to two seemingly normal students on such a close-knit campus. |
Contributor Bio(s): Griffin, Gail: - Gail Griffin is Parfet Distinguished Professor of English at Kalamazoo College, a poet and essayist, and the author of two volumes of nonfiction, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue and Season of the Witch: Border Lines, Marginal Notes. |