“The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City” by Laura Tillman; Scribner (256 pages, $26) “The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts,” the poetically titled book about the most horrifying of crimes, weaves together a devastating tale of true crime and the sociology of the dirt-poor border town where it took place — Brownsville, Texas. Laura Tillman, the young author, arrived in Brownsville as a [...]
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