Halfway Heaven
Diary of a Harvard Murder
In May, 1995, a photograph and an anonymous note arrived at The Harvard Crimson: Keep this picture. There will soon be a very juicy story involving this woman. Soon afterwards, Sinedu Tadesse stabbed her roommate, Trang Phuong Ho, to death, and then hanged herself. This riveting book recounts the stories of these women, whose admission to Harvard was halfway heaven, a bridge to the American dream after lives of hardship. Sinedu grew up under communist tyranny in Ethiopia, while Trang was born in a Vietnamese forced labor camp, and fled the country with her father and sister to end up on welfare in Boston. Despite their similarities, the tw…
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- ISBN: 978-0-452-28007-6
- EAN: 9780452280076
- Produktnummer: 12127022
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Über den Autor
Melanie Thernstrom is a journalist and creative writing teacher, and the critically acclaimed author of The Dead Girl and Halfway Heaven. A native of Boston, she graduated from Harvard University.
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