If I Am Missing or Dead
Janine Latus, . . Simon & Schuster, $25 (308pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-9653-3
At age 37, Janine Latus's younger sister, Amy, was strangled to death by her live-in boyfriend, bundled in a plastic tarp and buried beside a remote country road. It was a wretched end to a too-short life, one frequently marked by disappointment, sadness and struggle. In the hands of a less gifted writer, Amy's story might stand only as an encomium or a cautionary tale: a glimpse into the life of one abused woman, representative of thousands like it. But Latus weaves a double strand. Part memoir, part biography, the book (which grew out of an article in
Reviewed on: 02/26/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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