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Sound of Burning

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A Mother, a Daughter, a Murder

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvKristi D. Osorio

379 kr

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The Sound of Burning: A Mother, a Daughter, a Murder begins the night then fifteen-year-old Osorio's mother murdered her grandmother while the author was in her bedroom down the hall. But this book is not simply about that crime. Instead, Osorio examines the true crime obsession that arose in popular American culture parallel to her life, from early 2000s “copaganda” to the Scream franchise, to the more recent podcast boom. She uses her own story to interrogate the ways that true crime narratives often dehumanize the very real people at the center of those stories. Part memoir, part cultural critique, Osorio brings together memory, the lyric, and archival materials to tell her story of coming of age in the shadows of violence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-10-01
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCrux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
Antal sidor200
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9780820378091

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The story Osorio tells in The Sound of Burning is, sadly, crucial to our history and our culture. One where generational poverty leads to the worst kind of violence: loved one on loved one. How Osorio relays this foundational narrative of American austerity and its too-often aftermath is graceful and moving—truly heartbreaking—especially in her rendering of the mind after devastating loss. Yet through it all, it’s the love, between a girl and her grandmother, that endures in the end, and lingers long after.