Despite its salacious title, While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness, is not salacious. Unlike most true crime, especially featuring a sexual crime against women, this book makes great efforts to humanize everyone – including the perpetrator. This book is about a terrible crime, but also about a system that is unable to treat the mentally ill. This book transcends its genre to become an important statement about the price we all pay for a broken healthcare system.
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